PSYCH211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Swiss Army Knife, Lev Vygotsky, Developmental Psychology

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH211
• Professor: Ori Friedman

Document Summary

Core knowledge theories: (evolutionary) many people have proposed this theory. Mind is like a swiss army knife, the mind has many di erent domains such as a region in the brain that is responsible for: Recognizing faces and it helps to recognize people in an evolutionary perspective. In an evolutionary perspective you might need to recognize quantities of food or quantities of predator understanding the physical world: expectations of how objects should behave. Some say that people have innate capabilities, innate understanding, innate knowledge. Usually the abilities that core knowledge theories say are given are evolutionary important. Domain speci c: as opposed to piaget"s theories where the development of a system applies to the development of the same system, core knowledge theories is when the development of a system is unrelated to another system. Innate is better described as the ability to develop rather that the being born with it.