In: Psychology
What do you mean by Congnitive/Cortstructivism and briefly explain it.
This perspective is a combination of Gestalt approach and structuralist approach. This approach focuses on congnitive i.e. how we know the world through thinking understanding, perceiving, memorising and problem solving etc.
• Jean Piaget and Vygotsky are the pioneers of this approach.
• Cognitive psychologists view the human mind as an information processing syatem like a computer.
• Mind is considered to receive, process, transform, store and retrieve information.
• Mind is dynamic and human beings actively construct their minds as they interact with the social and physcial environment and interaction between adults and children.
This perspective is a combination of Gestalt approach and structuralist approach.