CHD-2220 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: 18 Months, Cultural-Historical Psychology, Human Accomplishment
11 Dec 2015
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Thinking develops as children act directly on their environment. Sensorimotor stage: spans the first 2 years of life; infants and toddlers think with their eyes, ears, hands, and other sensorimotor equipment. Piaget"s ideas about cognitive change: schemes: organized ways of making sense of experience; change w/ age. At first, schemes are sensorimotor action patterns. Adaptation and organization account for changes in schemes: adaptation environment. Adaptation: involved building schemes through direct interaction with the. Assimilation: using current schemes to interpret the external world creating new schemes or adjusting old ones after. Accommodation: noticing that current thinking doesn"t capture the environment completely. Equilibrium: when children are not changing much, they assimilate more than they accommodate. Schemes truly reach equilibrium when they become part of a broad network of structures that can be jointly applied to the surrounding world. Disequilibrium: when children are undergoing rapid cognitive change and they accommodate more than they assimilate.
