Piaget'S Cognitive Developmental Theory Flashcards
adaptation
building schemes through direct interaction with the environment
schemes
specific psychological structures that change over time and are organized ways of making sense of experiences
create new schemes or adjust old ones after noticing that our current ways of thinking does not capture the environment completely
accommodation
use our current schemes to interpret the external world
assimilation
implies a steady comfortable condition
cognitive equilibrium
cognitive equilibrium more ___ than ____
assimilation than accommodation
when children have cognitive discomfort
disequilibrium
disequilibrium more ___ than ___
accommodation than assimilation
change schemes through a process that takes place and internally, apart from direct contact with the environment
Organization
Organization
when children form new schemes they rearrange them linking them with other schemes to create a strongly interconnected cognitive system
when do schemes reach equilibrium?
once they become a large network of interconnected systems that can be applied to the physical world
when the sensorimotor development take place
infancy and toddlerhood
how many substages of sensorimotor stage are there
6
first stage of sensorimotor stage
reflective schemes birth-1mont
Second stage of the sensorimotor stage
primary circular reactions 1-4mth
