Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development Flashcards

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Who is Piaget?

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He produced an influential theory of cognitive development

He realised that children think in entirely different ways to adults

He divided childhood into different stages and they all represent development

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What is a Schema?

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A schema is a mental framework of beliefs and expectations that influence cognitive processing which is developed by processing

Me-Schema = all the child’s knowledge about themselves is stored

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The motivation to learn

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Piaget says we are pushed to learn… but our existing schema doesn’t make sense of what we learn when its new

Equilibrium = learning new information and building it into your understanding - everything is balanced

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How learning takes place

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Assimilation takes place when we understand a new experience and equiliberate by adding new information to an existing schema

Accomodation takes place in response to dramatic new experience - radically changing a current schema or forming new ones

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