Psychology 2040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Developmental Psychology, Intentionality, Phoneme
24 Sep 2018
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400-500 words, typed, double spaced include references infant (and toddler) cognitive development. Cognition attention, learning, thought, memory: mental processes by which we acquire and process information. Cognitive development how mental processes (intellectual abilities and knowledge about the world) change as we get older. Piaget"s cognitive development theory: stage progression involves quantitate changes, errors are important puts infants and children in situations that produce wrong answers/ errors to observe how they handle it etc, theory is based on descriptions/ observations. Monday, october 30, 2017: theory was rst to explain rather than simply describe, cognitive structure; Scheme pattern of thought used to represent, organize and interpret our experiences idea of how things work/ how thinks are in the world: evolve by; Assimilation new experiences are interpreted in terms of existing schemas. Accommodation old schemes are altered ( or new schemes are develped) to provide a better understanding of a new experience.
