PSYC1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Ingroups And Outgroups, Naturopathy, Steven Pinker

• School: UNSW, UNSW Sydney
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC1001
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Innate knowledge: or do they have to learn everything about the world from scratch, tabula rasa. Piaget: philosopher/natural scientist, famous for studying his own children"s development and theorising about how children. How does knowledge change: during development infants adapt to meet the demands of the environment, assimilation, fitting reality into existing schemas, accomodation, adjusting schemas to fit with reality. Piagets stages of cognitive development: sensorimotor stage birth - 2 years. Critisims of piagets theory: chilren are at a particular stage, problem: Thinking can be domain specific: conservation number earlier than mass and volume, theory undereastimates infants and. Imagined or implied presence enough: multimethod discipline: methodological creativity, controlled laboratory experiment, descriptive and survey techniques, field experiments and unobtrusive techniques, the honking" study. Impossibility of achieving truth: attacks postmodernism , - relativism, social and cultural factors, superstition, religion = science, fundamental misunderstanding of science, the unique status if scientific understanding.