PSYB21H3 Lecture : PSYB21_February 9.docx
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Bring pencil for multiple choice and a pen for written questions. Believed that children actively construct their own knowledge of the environment using what they already know to interpret new events and objects. Much more interested in how children think than in what they know. Believed that cognitive development involves changes in a child"s ability to reason about his/ her world: as you move through the stages you really change about the way you think about the world. Our basic structures for organizing information (beliefs: ex how a kid might think about an elephant. Experience at zoo -> special day with dad. As children progress through piaget"s stages of cognitive development, they become increasingly able to use complex and acbtract schemas for organizing knowledge. Assimilation: molding new information to fit with our existing schemas. Accomodation: changing existing schemas to fit new information (realize we have to change our beliefs)
