PSYC 241 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Concept Learning, Psych
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Form concepts on things such as transportation and animals. Piaget: schemes actions or mental representations that organize knowledge, ex. know what a restaurant is and how they work, different animals, etc, organization -- is the grouping of isolated behaviors and thoughts into a higher-order system. Piaget: cognitive structures develop through 3 processes: adaptation. Putting info into a way that makes situational sense: assimilation. Take new knowledge and fit it into the things you already know: accommodation. Change what you know to fit new information. Cognitive conflict between things you know and things you don"t know the child assimilates and accommodates to decrease conflict: equilibration. Mechanism/process by which children shift from one stage of thought to the next: cognition is qualitatively different in each stage (ex. sensorimotor > preoperational) Sensorimotor stage: 0-2 years: intelligence evidenced by motor actions, sensory-motor integration the relationship of sensory inputs to motor acts. Object permanence: object exists even when out of sight, before 8 months:
