PSYB32H3 Chapter 8: Chapter 8
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Cognition: the mental activity through which human beings. Constructivist view: piaget argued that children play an active. Schema: an organized unit of knowledge that the child uses to try and (cid:1) acquire, remember, and learn to use knowledge. Unlike behaviorism, in which children passively wait for information ( or stimuli) from their environments, they actively seek out information and try to fit it in with knowledge they already posses. Piaget proposed that children continually modify their schemas in relation to their own experiences. Involves determining how new info fits with existing info as well as how existing knowledge may need to change to incorporate new info. (cid:1) responding to the environment. Organization: combining simple mental structures into more complex. Operations: as a child grows and gains more experience they shift. Adaptation: the individual"s tendency to adjust to environmental. Assimilation: moulding a new experience to fit an existing way of.
