PSY210H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Recapitulation Theory, Rugrats, Primitive Reflexes
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13, assistant to paul godet gave piaget various mollusk specimens to add to collection. Spent childhood measuring, recording, categorizing mollusk shells. 1) troubling childhood profoundly religious, mentally ill mother. 2) natural tendency of all living organisms to categorize their surroundings. Babies put things in mouth all the time primitive little category of things you suck on . Brought natural selection to conceptions of psychological development of children. No sense that some parts of natural world would develop according to one set of laws while other parts wouldn"t. All life must follow same developmental laws. No sense to think intellectual development would take place any differently than physical development. All biological development must proceed according to same set of rules. Distinctions btw biology & psychology arbitrary & trivial. Godfather thought he was too narrowly focused. Gave philosophy by bergson about epistemology. Got piaget thinking about whether development of human knowledge conformed to principles of biological development ie evolution through natural selection.
