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PSYCHOLOGY
COGNITION AND DEVELOPMENT
PIAGET
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What is the
constructive approach
to learning?
Piaget
believed that children actively construct their understanding of the world rather than passively absorbing information.
What are
development stages
?
Piaget
proposed 4 sequential stages of cognitive development, each marked by distinct thinking patterns, progressing from
infancy
to
adolescence
.
What is
assimilation
?
Incorporating new information into pre-existing ideas and
schemas
.
What is
accommodation
?
Modifying existing
schemas
or creating new ones to fit new information.
What is
equilibration
?
How children progress through
cognitive development
stages. Involves balancing
assimilation
and accomodation.