01:830:331 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Puzzle Video Game, Sensory Memory, Task Analysis
14 Nov 2013
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Theories: developmental theories provide a framework for understanding important phenomena, developmental theories raise crucial questions about human nature, developmental theories lead to a better understanding of children. His approach is often labeled constructivist because it depicts children as constructing knowledge for themselves in response to their experiences. Three of the most important of children"s constructive processes (piaget: generating hypothesis, performing experiments, drawing conclusions from observations. Adaptation: the tendency to respond to the demands of the environment in ways that meet one"s goals. Organization: the tendency to integrate particular observations into coherent knowledge. Invariant sequence everyone progresses through the stages in the same order and never skips a stage. The sensorimotor stage (birth to age 2 years) Object permanence: the knowledge that objects continue to exist even when they are out of view. A-not-b error: the tendency to reach for a hidden object where it was last found rather than in the new location where it was last hidden.
