PSY210H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Lev Vygotsky, Statistical Hypothesis Testing, Inta
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Cognition the mental activity through which human beings acquire and process knowledge. Includes many mental processes, such as perception, attention, learning, memory, and reasoning. Piaget"s theory proposed that over development, the child acquires qualitatively new ways of thinking and understanding the world. Part two: piaget"s main tenet: the child actively seeks knowledge. Piaget argues that children are actively seeking out information where they try to fit new information with the knowledge they already possess. Constructivist view the idea that children actively create their understanding of the world as they encounter new information and have new experiences. Schema an organized unit of knowledge that the child uses to try to understand a situation; a schema forms the basis for organizing actions to respond to the environment. Organization combining simple mental structures into more complex systems: important for development of knowledge. Operations schemas based on internal mental activities.
