PSYC 304 Chapter Notes -Object Permanence, 5,6,7,8, Theory Of Multiple Intelligences
8 Dec 2011
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Cognition: higher-order mental processes, such as reasoning, learning, thinking and problem solving, through which humans attempt to understand the world. His research focuses on the child"s understanding of space, time and causality, of number and quantity, of classes and relations, of invariance and change. He took ideas about the structure and function of intelligence from biology. Basic principle of organization: organisms are always highly organized systems. For piaget, the essence of intelligence does not lie in individually learned responses or isolated memories; the essence of intelligence lies in the underlying organization. This organization takes the form of various cognitive structures that the developing child constructs. Basic principle of adaptation: all organisms adapt to the environment in which they must survive, often by means of very complex mechanisms. According to piaget, human intelligence is an adaptive phenomenon. Adaptation occurs through the complementary processes of assimilation and.
