CHYS 2P10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Metamemory, Motor System, Hot Chocolate
28 Sep 2015
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Cognitive development: cognitive development is the development of thought. Cognitive means thought: generally limited to non-emotional, social, etc. dimensions of thought. Used stages that matched up to an evolution stage, wanted to look at young people"s mental development to try and figure out evolutionary mental development and what they were thinking. He used his children as his test subjects. Children develop through schemes (how children develop through knowledge) ex. learning a name, a face, a recipe, etc. Processes of development cognitive development: adaptation to new information & mental reorganization are the driving forces behind, broadly evolutionary idea, but more like development and embryonic development. Assimilation: assimilation - is the incorporation of new information into existing schemas as well as the active representation of new stimuli, accommodation - is the rearranging of previous ideas so that they incorporate the new information. Have to accommodate the thoughts and feelings depending on the circumstances.
