PSYB32H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Object Permanence, 18 Months, Involuntary Memory
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Cognition: mental activity through which human beings acquire, remember, and learn to use knowledge: perception, attention, learning, memory, and reasoning. Piaget thought the errors children made revealed distinct age-related ways of thinking and understanding the world. Piaget relied on interviews and observations to study children. Piaget"s theory proposed that over development, the child acquires qualitatively new ways of thinking and understanding the world. Piaget"s main tenet: the child actively seeks knowledge. Constructivist view: children construct their own understanding: actively seek out information, and when they encounter new information, they actively try to fit it in with knowledge they already have. 300: operations: schemas based on internal mental activities. Cognitive adaptation: adaptation: children modify their schemas in relation to their own experiences, assimilation: applying their existing schemes to the new experience, accommodation: modifying an existing scheme to fit the characteristics of the new situation. Stages of development: comprehensive, qualitative changes over time in the way a child thinks.
