Cognitive development

• schemas-organise information and guides behaviour and thoughts and stops you becoming overwhelmed with sensory information
• Assimilation new environmental influences on schemas
• accommodation new schema is formed to accommodate and create new omens to explain
• equilibrium a pleasant state of balance between schemas and environment
• equilibration swinging for equilibrium too disequilibrium
• disequilibrium unpleasant state of disbalence motivates people to learn and re reach equilibrium