Piaget's theory of cognitive development
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- Created on: 02-03-20 12:55
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- Piaget's theory of cognitive development
- children do not know less than adults, they just think differently from adults
- schemas: units of knowlegde
- construct more and more detailed and complex
- = mental structure of all information of the world
- children form a me-schema = egocentric
- disequilibrium & equilibration
- disequilbrium: unpleasant feeling when we do not know something
- to escape: adapr by exploring and finding information
- equilibration: preferred mental state
- disequilbrium: unpleasant feeling when we do not know something
- assimilation & accommodati-on
- assimilation: takes place when we understand a new experience, adds info
- accommodati-on: dramatically new experiences
- radically changing current schemas or forming new ones
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