PSYB32H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Statistical Hypothesis Testing, Mnemonic, Qualitative Property
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Child psych - chapter 8 - cognitive development: paiget and vygotsky. Cognition: mental activity through which human beings acquire and process knowledge. Worked with binet on first intelligence tests. Helped binet develop standardized iq tests for children. Children of same age tended to get same answers wrong. Errors of children of particular age differed in systematic ways from other of older or younger children. Revealed distinct age related ways of thinking and understanding world. His studied relied on interviews and observations. Present child with problem to solve or questions to answer. Used his children for tests, present problem and watch how they behaved. Over development, child acquires qualitatively new ways of thinking and understanding. Piaget"s main tenet: the child actively seeks knowledge. Child plays active role in acquiring knowledge. Encounter new information, try to fit it in with knowledge they already know.
