PSY210H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Lev Vygotsky, Cognitive Development, Problem Solving
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Vygotksy"s sociocultural theory: children are the products of their culture. Scaffolding teaching style that matches amount of assistance that the learner needs. Cognitive growth stems from social interactions: piaget. Cognitive growth stems from independent expolartions where a child constructs knowledge on their own: testing out ideas and seeing how the world works, piaget and vygotsky see the child as an active learner. What is intelligence: don"t completely agree about how to define and measure intelligence. Broad consensus on what intelligence is: many tests to measure intelligence in infants, children, and adults, three behaviours are measured: General factor (g) all mental tasks requiring cognitive activity. Specific factors (s) factors unique to a particular cognitive task i. e. verbal reasoning. Sternberg theory of successful intelligence: three major components: Analytic analyze problem and generate different solutions. Creative deal adaptively with novel situation and problems. Practical know what solution or plan will work in a given problem.
