PSY 4130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Jean Piaget, Genetic Epistemology, Intelligence Quotient

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 4130
• Professor: Shirley Griffith

Document Summary

Includes topics such as memory, concept formation, attention, reasoning, problem solving, mental imagery, judgment, and language. Mill set the stage for cognitive psych with his mental chemistry: fechner showed that cognitive events should be studied experimentally. Times have changed with the presence of computers: refutation of the newtonian point of view. Interested in genetic epistemology, schemas, cognitive development, reasoning, and problem solving. Demonstrated that child interactions with the environment become more complex and adaptive as its cognitive structure becomes more articulated: found that children are unlike adults when it comes to solving problems. Simon asked him to work on an iq test; came up with different procedures to study non-verbal behaviours in children. He worked with children and wrote books about children"s concepts of reality, causality, time, morality, space, etc: even more proli c writer than wundt. Development around the 1950s: founders of cognitive psychology.