CPSY 4343 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: John Dewey, Ontogeny, Cognitive Development
12 May 2020
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Bjorklund & causey"s 6 truths: cognitive development proceeds as a result of the dynamic and reciprocal transaction of internal and external factors, cognitive development is constructed within a social context a. Baldwin applied darwinian notions to ontogeny (vs phylogeny) Points out that even our observations are interpretive, based on our. Theoretical orientation, on what we believe, what we expect to find. The facts of infant consciousness are relatively simple. Self-conscious observation alters the character of the phenomena. We can analyze complex structures into parts. By looking at periods when only part of the structures are in place. A way of carving nature at its joints . We can do direct experimentation on major issues. Such as initial understanding of space, causality, number. At the time, a dominant view as structuralism. Viewed mind as an abstract instrument of knowledge (a set of mental structures or faculties) to be analyzed into its elements.
