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PSYB3 Cognitive Development

PSYB3 Cognitive Development. Cognitive Development. Where have you encountered developmental psychology before? What do you think cognitive development will be about? What do you think you will need to learn? Content? Skills?. Cognitive development. Some recurring questions.

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PSYB3 Cognitive Development

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  1. PSYB3 Cognitive Development

  2. Cognitive Development • Where have you encountered developmental psychology before? • What do you think cognitive development will be about? • What do you think you will need to learn? • Content? • Skills?

  3. Cognitive development

  4. Some recurring questions... • How can we find out what infants and children are thinking? • How is a child’s thinking different from an adult’s? • Does nature or nurture have more influence on children’s development? • Can a child’s rate of development be accelerated?

  5. Pair up. Decide who will be child and who will be investigator. • The child will be given an object to play with. The investigator must observe carefully in order to be able to describe what the child did. • Now swap roles.

  6. Assimilate Adaptation of schemas Equilibrium Disequilibrium Accommodate

  7. Today’s session

  8. Jean Piaget (1896-1980) • The first person to study cognitive development scientifically and systematically. • The most influential theory of cognitive development.

  9. Adaptation • The process by which the child changes its mental models of the world to match more closely how the world actually is.

  10. Cognitive development As the child gets older its schemas become... More complex More numerous More abstract More interconnected

  11. Cognitive development The child’s understanding develops because... Its brain is developing (maturation) It is exploring the world around it (experience)

  12. Where do you think Piaget would stand on the nature-nurture debate?

  13. Homework • Write a paragraph describing a child adapting its understanding of the world due to an experience it has had. Make sure you use the correct terms: • Schema • Assimilation • Disequilibrium • Accommodation • Equilibrium

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