PSY 2105 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Jean Piaget, Cognitive Development, Longitudinal Study
15 Nov 2015
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Chapter 8: cognitive development piagetian and vygotskian approaches. Piaget"s training includes heavy doses of biology and philosophy. Piaget"s career goal was to use children to study basic philosophical questions about nature and origin of knowledge. Philosophy: child"s understanding of space, time, and causality; of number and quantity; of classes and relations; and of invariance and change. Cognitive structures: ways to organize information to understand and remember it more effectively. Job of the psychologist is to discover what these cognitive structures are. When children assimilate, they may distort reality to fit with their understandings: accommodation: we continually accommodate our cognitive structures to fit the environment altering our understanding to take new things into account. Intelligence changes as the child develops, and the psychologist must describe and explain these changes. Piaget: no singe organization or set of cognitive structures that defines childhood intelligence. See p. 263 table 8. 1 piaget"s four periods of development.
