PSYB21H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Almost Surely, Object Permanence, Cultural-Historical Psychology
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Cognition is the term used to describe the mental activity through which human beings acquire, remember, and learn to use knowledge. Congnition includes many mental processes like perception, attention, learning, memory and reasoning. Piaget"s theory of cognitive development emphasizes developmental changes in the organisation or structure of children"s thinking processes. Lev vygotsky"s sociocultural theory of cognitive development suggests that a child"s interactions with the social world produce advances in thinking and understanding. Piaget helped binet develop first standaradized iq tests for children and made two important observations. That children of the same age got the same answers wrong 2. The errors children make differed in systematic ways from those older or younger. He thought these revealed distinct age related ways of thinking and understanding the world. Interviews= question and have them explain their thinking. Observation= used very young, present problem watch them try to solve. Proposed that throughout development the child acquires new ways of thinking and understanding the world.
