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The document covers cognitive development theories, focusing on the contributions of Piaget, Vygotsky, and Freud. It outlines the stages of cognitive development in children, emphasizing the importance of social and cultural influences on learning. The document also includes a timeline of psychological advancements and a group activity related to game design for teaching recycling to children.

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UX-UI Design_Cognitive Development

The document covers cognitive development theories, focusing on the contributions of Piaget, Vygotsky, and Freud. It outlines the stages of cognitive development in children, emphasizing the importance of social and cultural influences on learning. The document also includes a timeline of psychological advancements and a group activity related to game design for teaching recycling to children.

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Interfaces design

and interaction
🙈🙉🙊
Last class recap!
● Cognitive development
● Sociocultural theory of human
learning

Today’s ● Gestalt school


● Piaget

objective
● Vygotsky
● Freud
Timeline (and a sneak-peak for the next
weeks)
Advances in psychology and the video game sector
Affective
Behaviourism Memory, Cognitive neuroscience,
and classical perception, development, emotion and
conditioning attention, sociocultural theory decision-making, Thinking fast and
language of human learning thinking slow
mirror neurons

60s 70s 80s 90s 00s


Gestalt school
● The early theories of Pavlov and Skinner defined learning simply
as observable behavioral responses based on outward stimuli
and reinforcements
● Cognitive research done by German psychologists and language
acquisition experts in the 1920s and 1930s began to gain traction.
● By the 1960s and 1970s, the concept of Gestalt (German for
“structured whole”) began to unlock the organizational powers
of the human brain and how internal processes affects learning
Gestalt school
● Gestalt psychology is holism,
or that the whole is greater
than the sum of its parts
🕺🏾💃
But first…
Definitions
Starting
What is
cognitive
?
science?
What is cognitive
science?
● Cognitive science
emerged in the 1970s
and is defined the
interdisciplinary,
scientific study of the
mind and its processes.
What is
?
cognition?
What is cognition?
● The process of acquiring
knowledge
● The relationship between the
subject and the knowledge.
● Cognition is involved in
multiple mental processes
including perception,
reasoning, memory, intuition,
judgment, and decision-
making.
Cognitive process
Sensory Experience
Memory
Learning

World Subject
Action

Thinking

Interpretation of the
situation/appraisal
What is this object?
What is this object?

● Do I know this tool?


○ Yes: Let’s make some funky music with this harmonizer
○ No: It looks like an art object, let’s put it in the living
room
What is this object?
● The affordance of this object
contain knowledge that can
help you to interact with it.
● The surrounding culture gives
you clues for its utility
● The handle tells you how it can
be manipulated
What is
cognitive
?
development
What is cognitive
development?
● Describes how children think, explore and figure things out.
● It is the development of knowledge, skills, problem-solving and
dispositions, which help children to think about and
understand the world around them.
● Brain development is part of cognitive development.
The infant knows the world through their movements
and sensations

Children learn about the world through basic actions


such as sucking, grasping, looking, and listening

Infants learn that things continue to exist even


though they cannot be seen (object permanence)

They are separate beings from the people and


objects around them

They realize that their actions can cause things to


happen in the world around them
Children begin to think symbolically and learn to use
words and pictures to represent objects.

Children at this stage tend to be egocentric and


struggle to see things from the perspective of
others.

While they are getting better with language and


thinking, they still tend to think about things in
very concrete terms.
● During this stage, children begin to thinking
logically about concrete events

● They begin to understand the concept of


conservation; that the amount of liquid in a short,
wide cup is equal to that in a tall, skinny glass, for
example

● Their thinking becomes more logical and organized,


but still very concrete

● Children begin using inductive logic, or reasoning


from specific information to a general principle
At this stage, the adolescent or young adult begins to think
abstractly and reason about hypothetical problems
Abstract thought emerges

Teens begin to think more about moral, philosophical,


ethical, social, and political issues that require
theoretical and abstract reasoning

Begin to use deductive logic, or reasoning from a general


principle to specific information
Piaget’s four stages
Why is it
important?
● Cognitive development provides
children with the means of
paying attention to thinking
about the world around them.
● It encompasses a child's working
memory, attention, and ability to
manage and respond to the
experiences and information
they experience on a daily basis.
Freud’s development
theory
● All babies are initially dominated by unconscious, instinctual and
selfish urges for immediate gratification, which he labeled the Id.
● As babies attempt and fail to get all their whims met, they develop a
more realistic appreciation of what is realistic and possible, which
Freud called the "Ego".
● The superego is the ethical component of the personality and
provides the moral standards by which the ego operates.
● Freud believed that the nature of the conflicts among the id, ego, and
superego change over time as a person grows from child to adult.
Freud’s development
theory
Vygotsky’s theory of
cognitive development
● Argues that cognitive abilities are
socially guided and constructed.
● Culture serves as a mediator for the
formation and development of
specific abilities, such as learning,
memory, attention, and problem-
solving.
Piaget vs Vyotsky
Limitations
Piaget

● Development rate varies from one child to another


● Socio-economic factors can affect development
● Research methods limited to small sample

Vygotsky

● Lack of testing
● Vague clarification on the cultural and social impact on child
development
Activity time
Games for children
● Discuss in groups and present with 1 PowerPoint slide the design
considerations and approach to develop a game teaching 8-year-old
children how to recycle.
● Think of:
○ Their stage of development
○ The society they live in
🕺🏾💃
Tomorrow: emotions and
decision-making

Don’t forget it
Group Activity:
Reflection and teams

Work · work · work


That’s all folks

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