PSY 223 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Egocentrism, Cultural-Historical Psychology, Cognitive Development
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Stages not as clear cut as piaget believed. Cogniive development is overlapping waves rather than discrete shits. Young children understand more than piaget credited them for. Familiarity of the child with the task. Children"s awareness of their own and other people"s thought processes and mental states. Age 4 is age of crucial development in theory of mind. Cogniive and language abiliies are important to the development of theory of mind, as are experiences with adults and older children. Deloache symbol is any enity that stands for something other than itself. 75% of 3-year-olds exhibit understanding of symbol and referent in big terry studies. Child is embedded in a social context and focused on increasing abiliies with assistance of others. Expanded vygotsky"s sociocultural theory to examine varied ways children learn their society"s values and pracices through paricipaion in family and community aciviies. Goes beyond scafolding (instrucional aciviies) to include family and community interacions and stories.
