L&B Wk 8

1. Cognitive-Developmental Perspectives

2. Sensory Development
Hearing: Can recognize voices within a day or two of birth
Practically from birth, infants can:
Distinguish tastes
Recognize mother’s smell
Experience pain, as well as soothing touch
Vision
Can perceive strong contrast
Blurry

3. “Looking Tasks”
Babies generally:
Prefer some stimuli over others
Notice new or different things
Can learn to repeat rewarding activities

4. Piaget
Active engagement
Manipulation
Organization
Schemes
Operations
Assimilation
Changing perception to fit existing scheme
Accommodation
Changing scheme to fit perception

5. Piaget

6. Piaget: Influential but too simplistic?

7. Stage 1: Sensorimotor

8. Stage 2: Preoperational

9. Theory of Mind

11. Stage 3: Concrete Operational

12. Formal Operational Period
Capuchin monkeys living in a group
Toddler morality

13. What do we learn from Piaget?
Biological constraints
Rate of development
Learning can occur in stages
Reasoning abilities build on each other
Importance of hands-on learning
Importance of skill building
Disequilibrium