Piaget

Question 1

What is a schema?

Answer 1

schema; a mental container we build to hold our experiences.
Schemas can take the form of images, models, and/or
concepts.

Question 2

How might assimilation and accommodation be used with schemas?

Answer 2

For example:

a girl might encounter a cat and have a dog schema

she can either:
assimilate the experience by referring to the cat as a “dog”
or
accommodate her animal schema by separating the cat or different types of dogs into different schemas.

Question 3

What are Jean Piaget’s stages of development?

Answer 3

sensorimotor: Experiencing the world through senses and actions
preoperational: Representing things with words and images; using intuitive rather than logical reasoning

concrete operational: Thinking logically about concrete events; grasping concrete analogies and performing arithmetical operations

Formal operational: Abstract reasoning