Piaget's Cognitive Constructivism

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Piaget's Cognitive Constructivism

Stages at Ages

Formal Operation (11+/Adolescence)

Definition: Able to think abstractly although it is limited by lack of depth and breadth in knowledge

Concrete Operational (7-11 years)

Definition: Children able to use logical thought about physical operations

Conservation

Definition: Able to realize that two equal quantities are the same even if the appearance of one changes

Pre-operational (2-7 Years)

Theory of Mind

Definition: An understanding of mental states such as feelings, desires, and beliefs and the causal role they play in human behaviour

False Belief

Definition: Realization that people can hold beliefs that are not true

Joint Attention and Lying

Reversibility

Definition: Ability to recognize that numbers/objects can be changed and return to original condition

Centration

Definition: Narrow focused thought; children may only focus on one aspect of a question

Egocentrism

Definition: Seeing world from own perspective rather than others

Sensorimotor (0-2 Years)

Infantile Amnesia

Definition: Inability to remember events from early in one's life

Object Permanence

Definition: Understanding that objects continue to exist independent of one's actions

Three Key Processes

Equilibrium

Definition: Process of arriving at a stable state; no longer conflict between new and existing knowledge

Accomodation

Definition: Process where mental structures are altered to cope with new experiences that contradicts the existing model

Assimiliation

Definition: Process where new information is incorporated into existing schemas

Schema Theory

Literary Connections

Methods: Text-to-self, Text-to-text, and Text-to-world

Beliefs

Definition: Connects different knowledge to make meaningful links between discrete pieces of info

Schema

Definition: Unit of knowledge, understanding, skills