PSY 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: 18 Months, Object Permanence, Animism
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He taught in france alongside albert binet who was famous for developing an intelligence test. Very child focused and lacks focus on adults. Children are inquisitive and seek to understand their world. Generating hypotheses, performing experiments and drawing conclusions from observations are the 3 most important children"s constructive processes according to him. He believes children are motivated to learn and do not need rewards to do so. 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. Most strongly believes in nature as opposed to nurture. Schemes/schemas: templates on how to behave or think during a particular situation in response to a particular stimuli. Assimilation: interpreting new information and experiences based on previous schemas. Accommodation: when a scheme is modified or created to interpret new information.
