PSYCH 2AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Jean Piaget, Cognitive Development
27 Feb 2018
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Allows us to adapt to our environment, to survive. Goal of intelligence is establishment and maintenance of cognitive equilibrium (between what you are about to figure out vs actually doing) Always seeking to understand world around us with no confusion. Kids are forced/ motivated to learn bc they don"t understand anything. But within the confines of what they already know. Schemes: an organized pattern of thought or action constructed to interpret one"s experiences. Cognitive development = development of increasingly complex schemes. Kids modify their schemes by processes of: Adaptation: adjusting to what"s going on in the environment. Through assimilation: every masculine man is daddy. Accommodation: changing an existing scheme to account for a new experience. Goal of intelligence is to create a balance between what we know and what we experience. Cognitive development is motivated by a sense of discomfort when the balance between what we know and what we experience is disrupted.
