EDUC 201 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Cognitive Development, Psych
16 Dec 2019
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Different strategies for ages and stage of development. Two interact with one another and combine to influence development, biological nature playing stronger role in some areas. Continuous theory of development: happens in smooth progression with skills and experiences, emphasize importance of surrounding environment. Discontinuous: progression through set of predictable stages, changes happen when advance to new stage of development, acquire skills in same sequence just at different rates. Development based on manipulation of and interaction with surrounding environment. 4 distinct stages with emergence of new abilities and ways of processing information. Schemes: patterns of behavior and thinking to deal with objects in world, innate tendency to interact with environment. Use schemes such as banging to understand what object is/ does. Adaptation: process of understanding new object using existing schemes. Accommodation: when new object doesn"t fit into existing scheme, child modifies existing scheme with new info or experience. Disequilibrium- state of imbalance between what is understood and what is encountered.
