PSY 22215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Cerebellum, Cultural-Historical Psychology
3 Feb 2017
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Implications of piaget"s and vygotsky"s theories for. Piaget"s theory of cognitive development: explain the principles presented in vygotsky"s theory of development, discuss how the ideas of piaget and vygotsky influence current educational research and practice. Development: orderly, adaptive changes that occur in humans between conception and death and remain for long period of time. Not temporary change caused by brief illness, accident. Physical development: changes in the body structure/function over time. Social development: changes over time in ways of relating to others. Cognitive development: gradual orderly changes by which mental processes become more complex/sophisticated. Maturation: genetically programmed, naturally occurring changes over time. Three questions across the theories: nature vs. nurture (heredity/biology vs. environment/culture) Heredity and environment shape, influence each other. Example: calm/easygoing child or a sensitive/emotional child elicit different responses from others thereby constructing their own environments: continuity vs. discontinuity in development. Continuous, quantitative change is like walking up a ramp to go higher; the progress is steady.
