Cognitive Development - Piaget 1952 Flashcards
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What is cognitive development?
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Piaget suggests that intelligence is a process and a way of adapting to the environment. We all have experiences through interactions with the environment that then have an effect upon our understanding and subsequent behaviour.
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The work of who is central to understanding cognitive development?
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Jean Piaget (1952)
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4 Functional Invariants (remains unchanged) of the Developmental Process
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- Assimilation
- Equilibrium
- Disequilibrium
- Accommodation
All contribute to formation of schemas
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What are Schemas?
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A way of organising experience which allows us to understand and predict our world.
- A representation of a plan or theory in the form of an outline of model
