PSYC 2500 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Joint Attention, Puzzle Video Game, Working Memory
20 Oct 2016
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First assumption: children are mentally active as well as physically active from the moment of birth, and their activity greatly contributes to their own development. Piaget"s approach to understanding cognitive development is considered constructivist, as it depicts children constructing knowledge for themselves in response to experience. Three most important child constructive processes: generating hypotheses, performing experiments, drawing conclusions from their observations. The child scientist is a metaphor for this theory. Second assumption made in this theory: children learn many important lessons on their own, rather than depending on instruction from adults or older children. Third assumption: children are intrinsically motivated to learn and do not need rewards from other people to do so. Sources of discontinuity: these make up piaget"s stages. Here are the central properties: qualitative change. Children of different ages think in qualitatively different ways. The difference between stages represents a qualitative change: brief transitions.
