PSY 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Lev Vygotsky, Animism, Information Processing

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 302
• Professor: Paul Brunet

Document Summary

Taught in france with albert famous for developing an intelligence test. Theory: children are inquisitive and seek to understand their world, they form theories and test them, there are two qualities of thinking: Organization: the tendency for our thinking processes to become more systematic and coherent. Adaptation: the ability and tendency to adjust to our environment: schemes. Templates on how to behave or think during a particular situation in response to particular stimuli. Stage 1: sensorimotor (birth until 2 years old) Pre-conceptual stage: animistic thinking, ego-centricism intuitive stage, start solving problems but can"t explain how. Stage 4: formal operational (12 years and above) Positive: masterful observer, useful way to consider progressive advances in child cognition. Negative: more recent experimental work suggests higher child performance on tasks involving conservation, reversibility, transformation, and ability to count, contentations about continuity of development as theorized in piagets stages. Proposed the social cultural aka social historical aka cultural historical theory.