PSY 302 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Cognitive Development, Puzzle Video Game, Egocentrism
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Child development chapter 4 textbook notes: theories of cognitive development. * 3 advantages of knowing about piaget"s theories of child development are They provide a framework for understanding important phenomena; reveal significance. They raise crucial questions about human nature. They lead to a better understanding of children; stimulate new research. * the most informative current theories focus primarily on either cognitive development (growth of perception, attention, language, problem solving, reasoning, memory, conceptual understanding and intelligence) or social development (growth of emotions, personality, relationships, self understanding, aggression and morals) * fundamental assumption was that from birth onward they are active mentally and physically, and this activity contributes to their development; called constructivism, meaning that children create their own development by generating hypotheses, performing experiments and drawing conclusions. * also said children learn many important lessons on their own rather than relying on instructions, and that children are instrinsically motivated to learn and don"t need rewards from adults.
