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best known for cognitive development
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Piaget
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Piaget's cognitive development theory
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attempts to describe and explain processes by which indivdiual's pereie and organize thoughts and knoweldge to understand the enviornment
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Development and behavior are product of consistent and relaibale pattenrs of interaction with environment called?
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schemas
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Schemas
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goal oriented strategies that individuals use to explore the environment and learn about the world that all peeople are born with. they are sensorimotor and cognitive
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Children learn through
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adaptation
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adaptation
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reciprocal exchange between indivdiual and environment
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assimilation
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incorporation of an aspect of one's environment into an existing schema
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child knows how to grab rattle and put it in his mouth. Child assimilates a new object (pen) and into the old ‘grab a rattle schema”. Child grabs pen from mom and puts it in mouth
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accomodation
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adaptation or modification of schema to the charactertistics of a new object
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child grabs beach ball and attempts to assimilate it into the grab a rattle schema. Obviously unsuccessful, so child will adapt to the new object. Child accommodates old schema to new object by touching the beach ball and licking or drooling on it
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Stages of Cognitive Develpment
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Sensorimotor, preoperational, concerete operational, formal operational
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sensorimotor
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0-2yo
infant uses sesnse and motor functions to understand teh world Infant begins to form circular reactions Infant lacks symbolic function |
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preoperational
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2-7o
begin using symbols such as drawing and words gians understanding of past and future child is self-centered (sees everything as it relates to him) langauge development enables symbolic functioning to occur ego centered |
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concrete operaitonal
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7-11yo
learns to manipuate symbols logically concervation of substances understands death |
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Formal operaitonal
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transfers logical operations from concerete to hypothetical thinking
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Related to Festinger's cognitive dissonance
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Inevitable conflicts a child experiences between current belives and new information will lead to disequeillibrium which in turn motiaves the child to progress through various stages of development
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