PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8-10: Jean Piaget, Depth Perception, Cognitive Development

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Ashley Waggoner Denton

Document Summary

Refers to development of thinking across the lifespan. Thinking - no clear boundaries to define it - involves higher mental processes. Problem solving, reasoning, creating, conceptualizing, categorizing, remembering, planning. Perceiving objects and events in the environment, understanding and producing language. Cognitive development is about change - how your thinking changes as you grow. Piaget"s stage theory: children"s progress through qualitatively different stages of development. Sociocultural theories - emphasize how other people and the attitude, values, and beliefs of the surrounding culture, influence development. Information processing theories - examine mental processes that produce thinking at any one time and the transition processes that lead to growth in that thinking. Nature - biological endowment - genes we receive from our parents. Nurture - environments, social as well as physical, that influence our development, everything from the womb in which we develop before birth to the homes in which we grow up, schools we attend and people we interact with.