EDUC 108 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Decision Theory, Reductionism, Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale
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Changes over time in how people think, how they solve problems, and how their. A person who thinks within a particular stage in one aspect of life should think within. Assimilation: occurs when new info is altered to fit an existing scheme. Accomodation: entails changing the scheme to adapt to the new info. Cognitive development: capacities for memory and attention change. Concluded that age differences in patterns of wrong answers reflected differences in how children of various ages thought about the questions. The driving force behind development from one stage to the next is maturation. Proposed that the active construction of reality takes place through the use of schemes (structures for organizing and interpreting information) 2 processes involved in the use of schemes: Stages of cognitive development in childhood and adolescence: Ages 0 - 2 sensorimotor stage: learning to coordinate the activities of the senses with motor activities (ex. watching an object as it moves across your field of vision)
