Piaget

• Cognitive development refers to the growth and maturation of our thinking process
• Accomodation involves a person modifying their exisiting concepts or processes to adapt in response to new information or experiences
• Assimilation is when a person applies exisiting mental structures or processes to new experiences
• Sensorimotor stage

  Birth-2 years

  Object permanence

  Goal-directed behaviour
• Concrete operational stage

  7-11 years

  Conservation

  Classification
• Formal operational stage

  12+

  Abstract thinking

  Idealistic thinking
• Criticisms

  Age ranges were off

  The children were distracted

  He overestimated language ability

  Sample choice and size
• A schema is a memory structure that is developed from experiences that represents a person's general knowledge about different kinds of objects and events
• Abstract thinking is the ability to to understand something without seeing or experiencing it
• Animism is the belief that everything exists
• Centration is only being able to focus on one feature
• Conservation is the understanding that object remain the same even when their appearance changes
• Classification is being able to organise objects with similar properties into groups
• Goal - directed behaviour is when children learn that their is a relationship with their actions and the external word
• Transformation is understanding that something can change form one to another
• Egocentrism is being unable to see things from another person's perspective
• idealistic thinking is the ability to see alternatives to current issues and strive to be the best version of yourself
• reversibility is being able to follow a sequence back to its starting
• object permanence is understanding that objects continue to exist even when they are out of sight
• Pre-operational stage

  2-7 years

  Symbolic thinking

  Egocentrism

  Animism

  Centration

  Transformation

  Reversibility