PSY 2105 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Logical Reasoning, Egocentrism, Object Permanence
9 Apr 2020
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Chapter 8 - cognitive development: piagetian and vygotskian approaches. High order mental processes, such as reasoning and problem solving, through which humans attempt to understand the world. His goal was to use the study of children to answer basic philosophical questions about the nature and origins of knowledge. Child"s understanding of space, time, casuality; of number of quality; of classes and relations; and of invariance and change. The essence of intelligence lies in the underlying organization. Occurs through the complimentary processes of assimilation and accommodation. We are always accommodating our cognitive structures to fit with the environment. They change across the lifetime of the individual. Understands the world through basic actions performed on it. Representations instead of actions used to solve problems. Thoughts have possibility and work systematically and logically back to reality. Piaget"s 6 substages: exercising reflexes (birth - 1 month, simple, biologically proved reflexes, developing schemes (1 - 4 months, reflexes become sensorimotor schemes i. ii.
