PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10.2: Lev Vygotsky, Jean Piaget, Toonie
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Module 10. 2 - infancy and childhood: cognitive and emotional. Used to measure and compare samples of people at different ages at a single. Follows the development of the same set of individuals through time. Difference between people that result from being born in different time periods. Jean piaget: observe his children- cognitive development: the study of changes in memory, thought, and reasoning process that occur throughout the lifespan. How different ways of thinking and reasoning develop. Knowledge accumulates and is modified by two processes - assimilation and accommodation. Assimilation: a conservative process, whereby people fit new information into the belief system the yal realy process. Accommodation: a creative process whereby people modify their belief structure based on experience. E. g. when they realize boys can have long hair too. The sensorimotor stage: living in the material world. No ability to form abstract mental representations.
