lifespan development - piaget

Question 1

cognitive development

Answer 1

changes in an individual’s mental abilities, such as perception, thinking, learning, memory, language, moral reasoning, problem solving and decision making

Question 2

piaget

Answer 2

developmental psychologist focused on children’s development, demonstrated children think in strikingly different ways compared to an adult

Question 3

schema

Answer 3

concept or framework that organises and interprets information. children form schemas as they experience new situations and events

Question 4

assimilation

Answer 4

interpretation of new experience in terms of existing schemas

Question 5

accomodation

Answer 5

adopting current understandings to incorporate new information

Question 6

equilibrium

Answer 6

state where new information can be understood with existing knowledge. in this state, new information is assimilated into existing schemas without needing to change them

Question 7

disequilibrium

Answer 7

when new information contradicts or is different from existing knowledge/schemas. this state is uncomfortable and motivates us to adapt our cognitive structure to restore balance