Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Acronym, Decision-Making, Semantic Network

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

Piaget, all of us including young children are trying to understand/make sense of the world around us via schemas. Schemas mental models frameworks for us organize and interpret new information. Piaget belief of cognitive development was in the development of schemas. To develop these, you need to be able to grow/change them which happens through assimilation and accommodations: assimilation how we describe new information/experiences in terms of our current understanding/schemas. Acronym: assimilation has ss same schema: accommodation how we later adjust our schemas to incorporate new experiences to remember. Acronym: accommodation has cc for change or create: example given in video imagine a box (our schema) with 3 holes that fits 3 different shapes circle, triangle, square. We can either make another star shaped hole in our box for the star to fit to assimilate it or we accommodate by making a whole new schema for it.