PSYCH211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Lev Vygotsky, Dishabituation, Habituation
29 Jan 2018
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What would we doing without theories: describing but not explaining. Finding: infants calls all men daddy : without a theory we don"t know what this means! Perceptual: ability to interpret or become aware of something through the senses. Infant cannot differentiate other men from her father. Linguistic: nature of language and communication, for infant daddy means man. Communicative: coding thought, dealing or need in a way that has low chance of being understood by receiver. Piaget: swiss, first article on albino sparrow, at age 10/11, studied mollusks in his teens, many of his studies are on his own children. Piaget"s view of children: constructivist: generate hypotheses, perform experiments, draw conclusions, child as scientist view. What is alive: active in any way (e. g. , fall, make noise, movement, autonomous movement (including rivers, clouds, adult concept (plants included) She knows that dogs have four legs, so she might automatically believe that all animals with four legs are dogs.
