Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Dev. v1 Flashcards
The principal goal of education is to create men
who are capable of doing new things, not simply of
repeating what other generations have done
men who are creative, inventive and discoverers.
Jean Piaget
How many years did Piaget worked for him to finish his theory?
60 years
Piaget called his general theoretical framework _____ because he was interested in how knowledge developed in human organisms.
Genetic epistemology
BASIC COGNITIVE CONCEPTS:
- to refer to the cognitive structure by which individuals intellectually adapt to and organize their environment.
- individual’s way to understand or create
meaning about a thing or experience.
- Itis like the mind has a filing cabinet and each drawer
has folders that contain files of things he has had an
experience with.
- if a child sees a dog for the first time, he
creates his own schema of what a dog is
Schema
BASIC COGNITIVE CONCEPTS:
- the process of fitting a new experience into an
existing or previously created cognitive structure or
schema.
- the child sees another dog, this time a little smaller
one, he would make sense of what he is seeing by
adding this new information (a different-looking dog)
into his schema of a dog
Assimilation
BASIC COGNITIVE CONCEPTS:
- the process of creating a new schema.
- the same child now sees another animal that looks a little bit like dog, but somehow different.
Accommodation
BASIC COGNITIVE CONCEPTS:
- achieving proper balance between assimilation and accommodation.
- our experiences do not match our schemata
(plural of schema) or cognitive structures, we
experience cognitive disequilibrium.
Equilibration
What does Jean Piaget’s theory focuses on?
on how individuals construct knowledge
When our experiences do not match our schemata (plural of schema) or cognitive structures, we
experience what?
Cognitive disequilibrium
