FRHD 2270 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Cardinality, Egocentrism, Lev Vygotsky

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 2270
• Professor: susan chuang

Document Summary

Cognitive processes- piaget (says that children are like little scientists: operational = logic, early childhood: pre-logical, preoperational stage, egocentrism: all about me! Can ony see from their perspective: centration. Center: one (one thing at a time: conservation (physics- same weight, different sizes) not, animism: objects are real with feelings (mr bear! )- believes inanimate objects are animate: theory of mind: understanding between mind and behaviour. Understand different mental states (remember, think, believe) Understand thinking , can lie or deceive (don"t look at x, they do and then say they didn"t. Information-processing: attention: focus on x to be processed. Events and experiences in own life: counting principles: Stable-order: # names must be counted in order. Need to understand numbers to understand math, logic! Vygotsky: russian psychologist, social relationships in sociocultural context, zpd: zone of proximal development. Proximal: near: scaffolding: assistance to learner"s needs, private speech: intermediate step toward self-regulation! First, external forces, then instruct themselves aloud then .