EDPS 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Jean Piaget, Logical Reasoning, Cognitive Development
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Used his own 3 children in much of his research. All mental activities in which a person engages, including. Children naturally organize what they learn from their experiences. Groups of similar thoughts or actions that are used repeatedly in response to the environment. Ex: general thoughts associated with house, dog, or baby. An organized and integrated system of schemes- logical thought. A learner actively constructs a body of knowledge from the interactions with their environment. View of learning: a process of active discovery. Movement back and forth from equilibrium to disequilibrium. Promotes the development of increasingly complex forms of thought and knowledge. Being able to address new events using existing schemes. Unable to address new events using existing schemes. Dealing with a new event or object in a way that is consistent with an existing scheme. No new scheme is created, fit into existing.
