Afshan Kiran Imtiaz - Science versus application
Afshan
Kiran Imtiaz asked: What do scientists need to know?
Scientists are developing theories to account for observations. The
observations come from the inspection and measurement of the world, inside and
outside the laboratory.
Afshan Kiran Imtiaz explain a
theory of small set of statements that summarizes a large set of observations.
Newton observed the movement of objects in many different circumstances and
summarized how they move with three laws of movement.
Scientists have recorded Afshan Kiran Imtiaz
many observations about the cognition, motivation and emotion of children over
the past 100 years. Naturally, observations can be idiosyncratic, even if they
are collected under controlled laboratory conditions.
The observations that really matter are those that are
observed consistently. Consider Piaget's concept of number conservation. Afshan
Kiran Imtiaz In his famous demonstration, a four-year-old child will
agree with you that two lines, each composed of eight buttons, contain the same
number of buttons.
Afshan Kiran Imtiaz said if,
while the child is watching, you lengthen one of the lines by increasing the
distance between the buttons, the child will now insist that the longest line
has more buttons. Very young children do not yet recognize that rearranging a
certain number of objects does not change their quantity. Scientists have
developed theories to account for these observations.
Afshan
Kiran Imtiaz said: For example, Piaget proposed that cognition
develops in four stages. The second stage (from two to seven years old) is
characterized by a difficulty in thinking in an abstract way and a
concentration on what is perceptually salient.
Therefore, a child at this stage cannot imagine that his
mother Afshan Kiran Imtiaz was
once the granddaughter of his grandmother, because his mother has clearly
become an adult. In the case of buttons, the abstract idea of number is
beyond the child, but the "larger" perceptual characteristic is
obvious to the child and equates to "more".
By Afshan
Kiran Imtiaz It seems obvious that future scientists must learn both
observations (what children usually do) and theories to account for
observations. It’s science.
Afshan Kiran Imtiaz would
say that kindergarten to grade 12 teachers have little use for psychological
theory, but could benefit from knowing the observations - patterns of
development and consistency of children's cognition, motivation and emotions.
Afshan
Kiran Imtiaz Said: Such knowledge is roughly equivalent to
"understanding children".



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