Piaget's theory of cognitive development
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- Piaget's theory of cognitive development
- Equilibrium
- Occur when children can deal with new info/ understand the world around them
- Disequilibrium
- new Information from the world cannot be understood with existing schemas
- Unpleasant feelings
- new Information from the world cannot be understood with existing schemas
- Accomodation
- The process of radically adjusting or changing the existing schemas as new things cannot be understood by the existing schemas, or create a new one as the existing one is insufficient
- Equilibration
- The movement from equilibrium to disequilibrium through the process of accomodation
- Assimilation
- The process whereby a new experience is understood in terms of an existing schemas
- Piaget suggested children not just know less than adults, but actually reason differently.
- he is a constructivist, this means that he saw children as being actively involved and instinctively construct their understandingof the world around them
- he saw children as a result of their own experience and instruments of self-discovery
- Result of their own experience = maturation and environment
- Maturation means that cognitive development is biological, i.e. at certain point, we will be mentally capable of new things
- Environment means that with interactions, our understanding of the world becoming more complex
- Result of their own experience = maturation and environment
- Life span learning
- As our schemas are being changed through our experiences of the world, therefore, cognitive development will still take place if we are still alive
- Equilibrium
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