FRHD 2280 Lecture 3: lecture 3

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 2280
• Professor: Henry Thille

Document Summary

Changes in cognitive development proceed in distinct stages (e. g. discontinuous) Each person"s cognitive abilities are organized into one coherent mental structure. His approach is known as the cognitive developmental approach. The driving forces behind developmental from one stage to the next is maturation. Piaget portrayed maturation as an active process. Children seek out information and stimulation in the environment that matches the maturity of their thinking. Interesting footnote: this is in contrast with other theories such as behaviourism which views the environment as acting on the child through rewards and punishments. This stage is pivotal in cognitive development in adolescence. Involves the ability to think scienti cally and apply those concepts. Hypothetical-deductive reasoning is the ability to arrive and defend an answer. Adolescents are aware of their thinking process. The capacity for thinking about thinking enables adolescents to learn and solve problems more e ciently. The stage of formal operations has be the most critiqued.