Psychology 2410A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Number Sense, Lev Vygotsky, Object Permanence

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2410A/B
• Professor: Sandra Hessels

Document Summary

Schemes: in piaget"s theory, schemes are actions or mental representations that organize knowledge. Children seek to construct an understanding of the world by creating schemes. Children use and adapt their schemes by: assimilation: piagetian concept of the incorporation of new information into existing knowledge. Toddlers assimilate objects into existing schemes (such as calling motorcycles and trucks, cars). Children eventually learn to distinguish between types of items in a broad category (motor vehicles) and create other more fine-tuned categories (motor cycles, and trucks): accommodation: piagetian concept of adjusting schemes to fit new information and experiences. Babies make accommodations to their schemes such as knowing that nipples and fingers are good to suck but fuzzy blankets are not. Organization: piaget"s concept of groups isolated behaviours into a higher-order, more smoothly functioning cognitive system. The grouping or arranging of items into categories. Equilibration: a mechanism that piaget proposed to explain how children shift from one stage of though to the next.