PSYC 2500 Lecture 8: Psyc 2500 Lecture 8
16 Nov 2016
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Lecture 8: theories of cognitive development (part 1) Midterm: 5 out of 6 short answer. Half page question each 5 marks: and 30 mc question. Cognitive development: changes in children"s mental skills and abilities, changes that occur over their lives. Jean piaget (1896-1980: swiss physiologist, genetic epistemologist. He was interested of the wrong answers people had, wanted to know why these people are all getting the same answers wrong. He observed his own children (3 kids) Right about a lot even though his research was all done on 3 kids. Clinical method he used, had his kids solve problems: looking for universal patterns of intellectual growth and knowledge. Intelligence: basic life function, helps organism adapt. Adaptation in a few ways turning the tv on. Goal of intellectual activity: cognitive equilibrium. Children are motivated to make sense of the environment when something doesn"t make sense. Actively exploring the environment to gure it out.
