PSY 3105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Prenatal Development, Motor Cortex, Intelligence Quotient
20 Oct 2016
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According to piaget the driving force behind development is maturation. All of us have within our genotypes a prescription for cognitive development that prepares us for certain changes at certain ages and a reasonably normal environment is required for proper development. The emphasis on maturation separated piaget from other theorists in that piaget observed maturation as an active process. Used to test whether a child has progressed from concrete to formal operations (the transition usually takes place from age 11 to14) Abstract concepts include time, friendship and faith; they exist only as ideas, you cannot feel, see or touch them: complex thinking: multiple interpretations of things, metaphors, satire, sarcasm. Piaget puts a lot of emphasis on maturation (people should roughly be at the same stages at the same time) but everyone matures a little bit differently. The most critiqued stage is formal operations. Two categories: individual differences and the cultural basis of adolescence cognitive development.
