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PSCY2019 Social Psychology Assignment

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Social Psychology (PSCY2019)

   

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PSCY2019 Social Psychology Assignment

   

Social Psychology (PSCY2019)

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Running Head: COGNITIVE AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGYCognitive and Social PsychologyStudent NameCourse Code
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1COGNITIVE AND SOCIAL PYSCHOLOGYIntroductionCognitive development is said to be the field of study in human psychology which isrelated to the development of a child in terms of information processing, development of brain,perception of skills and its development and learning their first language. These developments inchildren take place according to the type of society in which they grow at young age. There aresome sociological factors which determine the development of a child’s brain towards cognitivefactors and develop a psychology among them. In the following discussion cognitivedevelopment in a social context is illustrated with the theories of cognitive development. Othertheories related to the memory and its applications, theory of psychology, individual interactionwith society and community, influence of group on an individual behavior and theories of socialrelationships and discussed briefly. All these theories of psychology holistically establish thecognitive psychology. Cognitive Development in a Social ContextDevelopment of cognitive behavior and content in a human being comes from thecreation of environmental practices which a child experiences and observes their parents andother partners do around them. These developmental practices are dependent on the type ofenvironment created around a child by the adults (Berntsen 2017). The information processed bya child is in the same way its parents would have perceived it when they were children and theirparents before them since the genesis of the species. The social concepts which a childunderstands and learns is from the behavior and practices which are followed by the adultsaround them. It completely depends on the type of society in which the child is living which willdetermine its cognitive development. For example a child learns the same language which isspoken by his parents in his home (Bremner 2017). The cognitive development of a child’s brain
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2COGNITIVE AND SOCIAL PYSCHOLOGYhappens mainly from its surroundings. The brain acts in the same way as it is trained to act bythe environment in which the child lives. THEORIES OF COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENTThere are generally four theories of Cognitive Development which are consideredstandard in the context of cognitive psychology. The first one is Piaget’s Theory, the second oneis Sociocultural Theory, third one is Core-Knowledge Theory and the fourth one is Information-processing Theory. The most relevant and important among all these theories is Piaget’s Theorywhich states that child is a scientist and they construct their own knowledge throughexperimenting (Banks 2012). It states that children learn on their own without interference of anyadults. It I established that children are intrinsically motivated to learn and they do not need anymotivation and rewards from adults for their learning. According to Piagent there are four stagesof cognitive development which are qualitative change in which children of different ages thinkdifferently, broad applicability in which knowledge acquired by children increases its scope andoutlook, brief transitions which states that transition to higher levels of thinking may not becontinuous and the last one is invariant thinking in which all the stages of thinking are equal(Forde 2009).Theories of Memory and Their Application to PracticeThere are many theories of memory which state that how a person remembers anything.An important theory of memory is Multi-Store Model in which there are 3 states of memory:sensory, short-term and long term. Another theory is Levels of Processing, according to whichthe quality of memory depends upon the level of processing information. There are two types ofprocessing, shallow processing and deep or semantic processing. Third model of memory is
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