PS275- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 175 pages long!)
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Piaget noticed on iq tests that children of about the same age produced the same kinds of wrong answers. Children have different thought processes at different stages. Piaget defined intelligence as a basic life process that helps an organism adapt to its environment. Scheme: a cognitive structure, organized pattern of thought or action used to cope with or explain some aspect of experience. Claims infants have no inborn knowledge nor are they simply given information/taught how to think. Children actively construct new understandings of the world based on their own experiences. Assimilation: new info interpretended in terms of current schemes. Disequilibriums: imbalances or contradictions between thought processes and environmental events. Accomodation: children modify existing schemes to incorporate or adapt to new experiences: piaget"s sensorimotor stage: Understand world through sensory experiences/physical interactions with objects. Lots of things through physical and sensory work. Object permenance: understanding that objects continue to exist even when they can no longer be seen.
