PSY210H1 Chapter Notes -Dual Representation, Object Permanence, Lev Vygotsky
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Formal operational stage c piaget and education c overall evaluation of piaget"s theory: the core knowledge perspective o. Cognition: refers to the inner processes and products of the mind that lead to. It includes all mental activity - attending, remembering, symbolizing , categorizing, planning, reasoning, problem solving, creating, and fantasizing . Mechanisms of cog development = genetic/environmental factors. Individual differences combine to yield patterns of change. Piaget viewed children as discovering/constructing virtually all knowledge about their world through their own activity by themselves. His theory is described as a constructivist approach to cognitive development. Basic characteristics of piaget"s stages: 4 stages. Sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational formal operational: 3 important characteristics : Stages provide general theory of development (stages change in an integrated fashion , following a similar course) Stages are invariant (occur in a fixed order, no stage is skipped) Stages are universal. (assumed to characterize children everywhere)
