Piagets theory of cognitive development
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- Created on: 01-02-14 11:14
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- Piagets theory of cognitive development
- Schema
- An organised unit of knowledge of which we use to respond to stimulus
- Adaption
- Where a child's schema's are used to fit in with their experience of the world
- Assimilation
- applying new information to an existing schema
- Pencil to pen
- applying new information to an existing schema
- Accomodation
- Changing or developing a new schema
- modifying information of four legged animals by eliminating them as they are learnt, eg a cat has four legs but inst a dog
- Changing or developing a new schema
- Equilibrium
- a stage of cog balance where in coming information can we dealt with by existing information
- Discovery learning
- learning through active learning and constructive learning
- Stage 1 - sensorimotor
- Children interact through their senses
- Develop object permanence around 8 months
- Study with the toy under the blanket
- Stage 2 - Pre-operational
- ego centrism - develop the ability to see from another persons perspective
- Three mountains task, 10 pictures
- decentrate at age 7 ish
- the intuitive period - conservation of mass
- Stage 3 - concrete operational
- develop mental operations to apply to real situations
- reversibility
- Class inclusion study with beads. some classes exist within other classes
- Stage 4 - formal operational
- can apply to abstract and unreal situations
- reason hypothetically
- flexibility in thinking
- Weight lengths, can systematically logically reason
- Schema
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