EDP 3326 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Puzzle Video Game, Mental Representation, 18 Months
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Describe piaget"s view of development, noting key concepts of his theory. Children move through 4 stages of development between infancy and adolescence. During all stages, all aspects of cognition develop in an integrated fashion, changing in a similar way at about the same time. First stage: the sensorimotor stage- spans the first two years of life. Piaget believed that infants and toddlers think with their eyes, ears, hands and other sensorimotor equipment. They cannot yet carry out many activities inside their heads. Specific psychological structures- organized ways of making sense of experience called schemes- change with age. Adaptation and organization account for changes in schemes. Adaptation: involved building schemes through direct interaction with the environment, made up of two complementary activities: During assimilation, we can use out current schemes to interpret the external world. Organization: a process that takes place internally, apart from direct contact with the environment. Describe the major cognitive achievements of piaget"s six sensorimotor substages.