PSY100H1 Chapter 10.2: Module 10.2-2
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Module 10. 2: infancy and childhood: cognitive and emotional development. Many parents are buying (cid:498)baby einstein(cid:499) line of books. Do they actually provide the advertised long-term benefits of increasing cognitive skills: these products are designed to help babies explore music, art, language, science, poetry, and nature through engaging images, characters, and music. Also, controlled studies show that these dvds have no effect on vocabulary development. Turns out, the amount of time parents spend reading to their infants is related to greater vocabulary comprehension and production. Jean piaget would run secret experiments on his friends and family. Much of his research laid the groundwork for the modern science of cognitive development. Cognitive development: the study of changes in memory, thought, and reasoning processes that occur throughout the lifespan. Piaget focused on cognitive development from infancy through early adolescence. He was interested in explaining how different ways of thinking and reasoning develop. According to piaget, knowledge accumulates and is modified by two processes:
