PSYCH 2AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cognitive Development, Psych, Sample Size Determination
18 Dec 2015
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From a theoretical perspective, piaget is the father of cognitive development. Did research on children for most of his life. He studied cognition in order to answer these questions. What is knowledge? , where does it come from? . Intelligence is an adaptive, basic life function: the goal is cognitive equilibrium what the child knows and what the child has experienced (when these are in equilibrium, the child is happy). Kids construct their own knowledge, within the confines of what they already know. Schemas (ideas/theories/knowledge of how the world works): ex. You might have a sucking scheme, and you use this to discover everything in the world, and adapt to the world around you: ex. Structure of song and ways of interpreting information to help us adapt to the world. Cognition defined through schemes: formal definition: organized patterns of thought or action constructed to interpret ones this concept. around us. experiences. Cognitive development is development of the increasingly complex schemes.
