PSYC1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Tabula Rasa, Object Permanence, Cognitive Development
12 Jun 2018
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Piaget's Theory - Issues of Continuity and Discontinuity
PIAGET'S THEORY - ISSUES OF CONTINUITY AND DISCONTINUITY
The nature of human development can be continuous or discontinuous.
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How do we know what they know?
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What do infants and young children know?
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Innate knowledge
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Do they come into the world knowing anything?
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Tabula rasa
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Or do they have to learn everything about how the world works from scratch?
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Cognitive Development
Swiss philosopher/natural scientist
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Interested in epistemology
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Famous --> studies his own children's development and theorizing about how children acquire knowledge
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Jean Piaget (1896 - 1980)
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Piaget thought that children construct knowledge by mixing their experiences with their own ideas
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Constructivist approach
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Mental structures or models that we create to represent, organise and interpret our experiences
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Schemas
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How do children learn about the world works?
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How does knowledge change?
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Fitting reality into existing schemas
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Assimilation
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Adjusting schemas to fit with reality
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Accommodation
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During development, children adapt to meet the demands of the environment
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3C - Developmental Psychology
Thursday, March 15, 2018
9:00 PM
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