EDPE 300 Study Guide - Final Guide: Visual Learning, Social Cognitive Theory, Lev Vygotsky

• School: McGill University
• Department: Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology)
• Course: EDPE 300
• Professor: Camelia Birlean

Document Summary

Piaget children active & motivated learners construct knowledge from experiences interaction with physical & social environments essential for cognitive development cognitive development can proceed only after certain genetically controlled neurological changes occur. Organization scheme: organized group of similar actions or thoughts. Basic blocks of thinking children organize what the learn and do into schemes. Assimilation: dealing with a new event in a way that is consistent with an existing scheme. Accommodation: dealing with a new event by modifying an existing scheme/forming new one. Equilibrium: state of being able to explain new events by using existing schemes. Disequilibrium: an inability to explain new events by using existing schemes. Equilibration: movement from equilibrium to disequilibrium & back to equilibrium: promotes development of more complex forms of thought & knowledge. Gives understanding of how students" think (match teaching approach to cognitive stage) since learners construct knowledge teachers can build on what is learned learners learn through play.