HDF 308 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Intentionality, Executive Functions, Normative Social Influence
16 Nov 2016
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His training as a biologist established his belief that principles of biology could be used to explain the evolution of knowledge. Piaget assumed the roots of cognition lie in the perso(cid:374)"s biological capacities. He hypothesized that logical thought unfolds a series of biologically guided stages that emerge in fixed sequence as the person engages and explores. Knowing is an active process of achieving and re-achieving equilibrium, not a constant state. We have schemes about everything based on our experiences (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h (cid:373)ea(cid:374)s e(cid:448)eryo(cid:374)e"s schemes are different. A scheme is any organized, meaningful grouping of interrelated actions, images, feelings, or ideas that determine how a person interacts with the environment. Assimilation two s mean same scheme. Stage theories generally are qualitative in nature at least between the stages: the issues and changes in each stage is totally different then the stage before, ex. change from pre operational to concrete they think completely different.
