CHYS 2P10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cognitive Development, Egocentrism, Ontogeny

• School: Brock University
• Department: Child and Youth Studies
• Course: CHYS 2P10
• Professor: Anthony Volk

Document Summary

Course business: midterm is in two weeks (mostly based on lecture material, some text material; if it has been covered in both its definitely important) It is 2 hours long, 100 mc, no review will be posted: lab debates begin this week. Cognitive development: cognitive development is the development of thought, generally limited to non-emotional, social, etc. dimensions of thought. Jean piaget: born in 1896 in neuchatel, switzerland. Structures are unobservable mental systems that underlie intelligence. They are what change with development: children are motivated to learn by a need to satisfy their curiosity, discovery is the best way to learn, children build their own representations of reality; these change with child"s (st)age. Adaptation to new information & mental reorganization are the driving forces behind cognitive development. Broadly evolutionary idea, but more like development and embryonic development. : the incorporation of new information into existing schemas as well as the active representation of new stimuli.