Paper3 : Cognition And Development Flashcards
Piaget theory of cognitive development
Maturation causes changes in the way children think. Result of active discovery and experience
Schemas
Units of knowledge. Based on our experience
Motivation to learn
When our existing schema does not allow us to make sense of something new. Leads to disequilibrium.
Equilibration
Restoring balance between experience and schema by exploring
Assimilation
Adding new information to existing schema
Accommodation
Radically change schema or add new ones
Lifespan learning
Happens throughout life as our experiences present new knowledge
Stages of intellectual development
4 stages each with different level of cognitive reasoning
Sensorimotor stage
0-2 years
Basic coordination and language
Object permenace develops at 8 months
Understanding that objects still exist when they are out of sight
Preoperational stage
2-7 years
Ego centrism
Lack of class inclusion
Struggle with conservation
Egocentrism
See world from one’s own perspective
3 mountains task by Piaget
Children asked to pick a picture to show what the doll can see. Struggles to pick photo that is what the doll can see
Class inclusion
Idea that classifications have subsets.
Picture of 5 dogs and 2 cats and asked if they are more dogs than animals. Children under 8 said dogs
Conservation
Mathematical understanding that quantity remains constant even when appearance of object changes
Pouring water between beakers
Stage of concrete operations
7-11 years
Can conserve, less egocentric, better at class inclusion, struggle with abstract thinking
Formal operations stage
11 years +
Abstract reasoning develops, can understand syllogisms