PSYC 2230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Personal Fable, Inductive Reasoning, Language Development
29 Apr 2016
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Much of his work was based on case studies, two in particular. Each child is a little scientist developing theories about how the world works and adapting to his/her environment. Scheme: piaget"s word for the basic actions of knowing, including both physical and mental actions: mental structure used to interpret experiences - ex. exam writing, birthday parties, bedmas. If you pick up and look at a ball - using your looking scheme, picking up scheme, and holding scheme. Organization: process of deriving generalizable schemes from specific experiences. A toddler may play with a glass ball the same way they play with a rubber ball: adaptation: the process through which schemes change, assimilation: the interpretation of new experiences in terms of existing models. Learning the rules of spelling - i before e , then you learn i before e except after c : accommodation is coming up with a new structure to classify experience.
