EDCI 32500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Object Permanence

• School: Purdue University
• Department: Educ-Curric & Instruction
• Course: EDCI 32500
• Professor: Professor Boes

Document Summary

To support development: keep babies safe but interested, respond reassuringly to separation anxiety. Assimilation and accommodation: jean piaget viewed intellectual growth as a process of adaptation (adjustment) to the world. Equilibration: equilibration this is the force, which moves development along. Piaget believed that cognitive development did not progress at a steady rate, but rather in leaps and bounds. Equilibrium is occurs when a child"s schemas can deal with most new information through assimilation. However, an unpleasant state of disequilibrium occurs when new information cannot be fitted into existing schemas (assimilation). Equilibration is the force which drives the learning process as we do not like to be frustrated and will seek to restore balance by mastering the new challenge (accommodation). Once the new information is acquired the process of assimilation with the new schema will continue until the next time we need to make an adjustment to it.