PSYC 3440 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Object Permanence, Egocentrism, Scientific Method
7 Dec 2013
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Combined backgrounds in biology and philosophy led him to agree with kant on what basic concepts of knowledge were (space, time, classes, causality), but disagreed that they were innate. He believed children understand these principles in increasing complexities as they develop. His main question was how does knowledge evolve? . Functional assimilation: contrary theory chronicling the motivational factors for eliciting behaviour. Instead of being due to external reward, piaget suggested they would be expressed as soon as they were available to the child, due to the sheer joy of mastery. Imitation and fantasy play are the extreme variants of accommodation and assimilation, respectively. However, children will never totally disregard physical properties, even in pretend play (beds are never teacups) Piaget assumed the child was a scientific problem solver (based on three ideas) Development is an adaptive strategy to understanding environments. Development only occurs within the context of disequilibrium.
