PSYC 1000 Lecture 7: Lecture 07
31 Jan 2017
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Biologically- driven growth and development enabling a sequence of predictable cognitive (aka mental processes) and behavioural changes. Experience (nurture) can adjust the timing: maturation (nature) sets the sequence. Mainly observable in: brain development, motor development. Cognition refers to the mental activities that help us function including: figuring out how the world works, developing models and concepts, problem- solving. Toddler figuring out how to get a ball from under a bed using a stick: storing and retrieving knowledge, understanding and using language. We don"t start out being able to think like adults. How did it start: schema: mental container" that holds our experiences and organizes them according to similarities and differences. Accommodation brings children to enter a new way of looking at the world. In this case by distinguishing horses and zebras (in diagram) How does development occur: piaget"s stages: Development is a combination of nature and nurture. Children grow by maturation and by learning through interacting/ playing with the environment.
