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Gorillas, babies, and the importance of looking
Vvisual behaviors sculpt our potentially overwhelming environment into meaningful experiences and the importance of studying visual social attention among individuals with autism
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Psychology Classics: Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development
Jean Piaget (1896-1980) was a Swiss developmental psychologist. While he made many contributions to the field, his most notable is his systematic study of cognitive development.
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Competence vs. Performance
The field of developmental psychology is fraught with some very popularized but misunderstood dichotomies. Nature versus is nurture is probably the most well known, but another important distinction is that between competence and performance. Jeff mentioned a little bit about this distinction a few months ago in his post about desirable difficulties in the classroom…