PSYCH 2GG3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Jerome Bruner, Developmental Psychology, Simple Machine

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 2GG3
• Professor: Ayesha Khan

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2gg3: learning, measuring and shaping behaviour three cognitive theories. The plan: to transition in our understanding of learning from a behaviourist to biological to cognitive perspective, to understand the relationship between cognitive and educational psychology from the viewpoints of, jerome bruner, jean piaget, lev vygotsky. Cognitive psychology: if the si(cid:373)ple(cid:396) (cid:271)eha(cid:448)iou(cid:396)s of a(cid:374)i(cid:373)als (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t (cid:271)e ade(cid:395)uatel(cid:455) e(cid:454)plai(cid:374)ed usi(cid:374)g (cid:271)eha(cid:448)iou(cid:396)isti(cid:272) positio(cid:374)s, the(cid:374) the presumably more complex behaviours of humans might be even less well explained, to figure out complex ways of cognitive thinking. Cognitivism and behaviourism: cognitive theories are concerned mainly with explaining higher mental processes: memory, perception, information processing, decision making, and knowing. Current learning builds on previous learning: 2. Meaning depends on relationships among concepts ex. organizing by course instead of all notes together. Simple machines amplifying human motor capacities: bus, bike, car, 2. Devices amplifying human sensory capacities: hearing aid, glasses, 3. Machines amplifying human intellectual capacities: calculator, laptop, smartphone.