2. Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development “Children actively construct their cognitive world, using schemas to make sense of what they experience.” *cognitive – involving conscious intellectual activity (as thinking, reasoning, or remembering)
3. Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development Schema – a concept or framework that already exists at a given moment in a person’s mind and that organizes information and provides a structure for interpreting it.
4. Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development 2 processes for how people use and adapt their schema: Assimilation Accommodation
5. Assimilation? it occurs when individuals incorporate into existing knowledge Example: a child picking up a set of keys
6. Accommodation? it occurs when individuals adjust their schemas to new information Example: a child picking up a set of keys and later on learn that some things can be picked up easily between two fingers
