PSYC 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Habituation, Psychophysics, Gustav Fechner

• School: Binghamton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 111
• Professor: Lanora Duell

Document Summary

Emphasized the role of the social environment in the child"s cognitive development. Child is young apprentice, mentored by parents and others who, by giving them new words, provided a temporary scaffold from which children can step to higher levels of thinking: today"s research. Young children are more capable than they were once thought to be. Development is more continuous than piaget believed. Formal cognition is smaller part of cognition than piaget believed. Studies support that human cognition unfolds in the sequence piaget proposed. Disorders that interfere with development: asd. Difficulty in developing language, some physical developmental milestones, social interactions. Impaired ability to infer others" mental state (theory of mind), social deficiencies, and repetitive behavior (sometimes, not always) Generally normal intelligence and often an exceptional skill or talent in a specific area, but deficient social and communication skills. Reading faces and social signals is challenging for those with asd.