FMST 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Alphabeat (Album), Social Cognitive Theory, Classical Conditioning
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Piaget was interested in investigating how humans logically reason from infancy to adolescence. Piaget believed that maturation or age set the parameters for what was possible in terms of logical thinking (nature). Piaget stated that humans sort information acquired from everyday discovery into their mental schemas. According to piaget, our minds consist of an infinite number of schemas (cells/neurons), which guide how we perceive, interpret, explore, and understand our expereinces. Finally, piaget stated that information we acqure from our everyday experiences is either assimilated or accommodated into our schemes. Contrasting the two mechanisms that result in schematic growth: Assimilation is the easiest method because it does not require a great deal of mental or schematic adjustment. When we assimilate information, the information is simply incorporated into an existing schema. Sometimes when we assimilate information, we change the information so that it fits our pre-existing schema (i. e. , our expectations or pre-existing beliefs).
