Piagets thoery of cognitive development and thinking

cognititve development-> refers to the way a persons knowledge thinking and intelligence changes as they get older

schema

• as children develop, they construct more detailed and complex mental representations of the world
• these representations are stored in the form of schemas
• a schema is a metal structure containing the information we have about one aspect of the world e.g a schema of a dog.

assimilation

• a form of learning that takes…