Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Cognition Development
- What is cognition?
- Mental processes that allow humans to understand their environment
- processes include: attention, thinking, concept formation, reasoning and problem solving
- Piagetian theory:
- children think differently to adults
- children think differently at different stages
- 4 stages
- Criticisms of work:
- competence vs performance
- over simplification of stages
- overly complex tasks
- overlooking social and cultural factors
- Piaget's theory of cognition development:
- discontinuous
- Domain general theory: all aspects of children's cognition are assumed to develop across stages in an integrated fashion
- affecting all aspects of thinking and reasoning
- Constructivist approach: emphasises the child's acquisition of knowledge through learning and experience
- children are like scientists = interacting and researching their world
- Schema: idea = patterns of behaviour
- even infants have certain skills in regard to objects in their environment
- adaptation
- assimilation: incorporate new into old schema
- accommodation: make new schema to deal with new experiences