PSYB32H3 Chapter Notes -Jean Piaget, Lev Vygotsky, Object Permanence
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Developmental psychology chapter 8 - cognitive development: piaget and vygotsky cognition - term used to describe the mental activity through which human beings ac- quire, remember and learn to use knowledge. Jean piaget theory of cognitive development - emphasizes developmental changes in the organiza- tion of structure of children"s thinking processes. Proposed that over development, the child acquires qualitatively new ways of thinking and understanding the world interested in epistemology - study of knowledge. Helped binet develop standardized iq tests for children important observations. Noticed that children of the same age tended to get the same answers wrong. Observed that the errors of children of a particular age differed in systematic ways from those of older or younger children thought revealed distinct age-related ways of thinking and understanding the world relied on two methods. Constructivist view - children play an active role in acquiring knowledge.
