PSY 302 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Pragmatics, Perceptual Learning, Illocutionary Act
31 Oct 2016
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Jean piaget: most famous cognitive developmental theorist, born in switzerland, 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. Stage 1: sensorimotor (birth until 2 years old) Tertiary circular reactions stage 2: pre-operational (2- 7 years) Start solving problems but can"t explain how. Contration stage 3: concrete operational (7-12 years) Emerging cognitive structure logical reasoning stage 4: formal operational (12 years and above) Lev vygotsky: russian, proposed the social cultural aka social historical aka cultural historical theory, theory. Through social interaction, we acquire the ways of behaving and thinking that are accepted in our own culture. Hmf: are learned via social interactions/culture (eg, logical and abstract thinking)
