HDFS201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Social Constructivism, Deductive Reasoning, Pragmatics
4 Apr 2016
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Cognitive developmental approaches: cognition: the activity of knowing and the processes through which knowledge is. Cognitive development acquired and problems are solved: piaget"s theory of cognitive development. Looks at environmental experiences and biology, and how we sculpt our cognitive development. Used naturalistic observation and clinical method (question and answer) to explore children"s understanding of the world. Children of same age make same mental mistakes. Intelligence- life function that helps an organism adapt to environment. Infants are active agents- learn through observation, investigation and experimentation. Children"s brains create schemes to organize patterns of action or thought. Developmental processes: schemes: actions/mental representations to organize knowledge. Childhood- mental schemes: assimilation: use of old schema for new information/experiences, accommodation: adjustment or modify scheme to account for new information or experiences. How does intelligence develop: children combine schemes to make more complex ones, cognitive conflict (challenging old schemes) drives cognitive growth, equilibrium-mental stability: internal thoughts are consistent with evidence from the external world.
