Piaget theory Flashcards
(10 cards)
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What is Piaget’s theory of cognitive development
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- explains how thinking, reasoning and understanding progresses
- through childhood
2
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What are schemas?
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- units of knowledge and understanding
- that we have about a person, object or idea
3
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How egocentrism tested?
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- 3 mountains task
- involved stating what a doll could see from different angles
- children in pre-operational stage couldn’t describe what doll could see, thus were egocentric.
4
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disequilibrium
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- caused when motivation to learn occurs
- when existing schemas dont let us make sense of something new
5
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equilibration
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- process we learn to escape diequilibrium
- through assimilation or accomodation
6
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assimilation
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- incorporating new information into existing schema
7
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accomodation
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- formation of new schemas, or alter existing schemas
- to make sense of something new
8
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+ ( education)
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P - applied to education
E- rather than copying silently from the board, classrooms now actively oriented
E - allowing children to learn through discovery
L - revolutionising classroom
9
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+ (empirical evidence)
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P - support from empirical evidence
E - Howe et al - children investigating movement of objects down a slope
E - each child picked up different facts and conclusions
L - children formed different mental representations of themselves: as piaget theorised
10
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– (Vygotsky)
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- Vygotsky suggests learning is a social process
- child learning is advanced if supported by peers and expert adults
