A2 H&SC Piaget

Piaget says we learn by discovery.

He came up with the idea of schemas, which is an idea we have of the world around us. For example our schema of a cat is that it has 4 legs and a tail.

How Piaget says we learn things:

If we have Equilibrium, the world around us makes sense.

When new information enters, we get disequilibrium.

We accomodate new information and need to change a schema.

We assimilate and test the…