Piaget Siegler

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Piaget (Siegler Alibali, Baillargeon)Informati
on Processing (Siegler Alibali)Next time
Memory (Ceci et al.)
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Piaget

• Historical Overview
• Sources for Work
• Basic Concepts
• Stages
• Cognitive Change
• Follow-Ups and Evaluation

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Table 2-3, p. 62
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Cognitive Change

• Interactionist
• Action
• Constructivist
• AssimilationReadiness
• Intrinsic MotivationDisequilibrium
• Logical-Mathematical Experience

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Follow-Up Research

• Assessment
• Stages
• Cognitive Change

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Stages
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Stages

• Qualitative change

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Stages

• Qualitative change
• Invariant sequence

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Stages

• Qualitative change
• Invariant sequence
• Concurrence

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Baillargeon
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Violation-of-expectation method Method of study
in cognitive developmentmeasures the infants or
childs reaction to an apparent violation of a
logical or physical law
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F07_01
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Information Processing

• History
• Nature of the Approach
• Research Examples
• Memory

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Contrasts with Piaget

• Began with study of adult cognition
• More emphasis on quantitative changes
• More emphasis on domain specificity
• Not a stage approach

• Emphasis on underlying processes (flowchart and
  computer metaphors)

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• Figure 8.1 A schematic model of the human
  information processing system. ADAPTED FROM
  ATKINSON SHIFFRIN, 1968.

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Contrasts with Piaget

• Began with study of adult cognition
• More emphasis on quantitative changes
• More emphasis on domain specificity
• Not a stage approach

• Emphasis on underlying processes (flowchart and
  computer metaphors)
• Distinctive methodologies

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TransitivityA B, B C, A ? CA gt B, B gt C,
A ? C
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Contrasts with Piaget

• Began with study of adult cognition
• More emphasis on quantitative changes
• More emphasis on domain specificity
• Not a stage approach

• Emphasis on underlying processes (flowchart and
  computer metaphors)
• Distinctive methodologies
• Emphasis on change

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Contrasts with Piaget

• Began with study of adult cognition
• More emphasis on quantitative changes
• More emphasis on domain specificity
• Not a stage approach

• Emphasis on underlying processes (flowchart and
  computer metaphors)
• Distinctive methodologies
• Emphasis on change
• Broad scope