PSY 335 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cognitive Development, Puzzle Video Game, 18 Months
16 Mar 2016
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Provide a framework for understanding important phenomena, raise crucial questions about human nature, motivate new research studies that lead to a better understanding of children. Piaget"s view is labeled constructivist depicts children as constructing knowledge for themselves in response to experience. Assumption 1: from birth onward, children are actively mentally and physically. Assumption 2: children learn many important lessons on their own, rather than only depending on instruction from adults/older children. Assumption 3: children are intrinsically motivated to learn and don"t need rewards from adults to do so. Nature/nurture: piaget believed that both interacted to produce cognitive development. Adaptation: tendency to respond to the demands of the environment in ways that allow you to meet your goal: organization: tendency to integrate observations into coherent knowledge. Assimilation: integrating reality/incorporating incoming info into concepts they already understand. Accommodation: improve current understanding in response to new experiences/changing one"s view to better match reality. Process by which children balance both to create stable understanding.
