These processes help children deal with new situations, experiences, and information as they grow.
Logical explanation becomes evident in the child through an understanding of conservation.
Foundational dimensions of developmental constructivism.
Processes which lead to equilibrium in new situations.
All of these processes stem from eqocentric behaviour.
Children are capable of different things at different stages/ages.
Ways of teaching schemas and beliefs through literacy.
Processes that lead to the theory of mind.
There is schematic growth as children go through the developmental stages.
Beliefs connects schemas.
Children begin to use logical thought about physical operations.
Children begin to develop imagination and symbolic thinking.
The three key processes are based on the stages of ages. Based on their ages, they are able to perform different thinking processes.
Through the key processes, schemas and beliefs are built and expanded.
Indication that theory of mind is developing.
Increased schematic development and abstract thought between these stages.

Piaget's Cognitive Constructivism

Schema Theory

Schema

Definition: Unit of knowledge,
understanding, skills

Beliefs

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

Literary Connections

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

Three Key Processes

Assimiliation

Definition: Process where new
information is incorporated into
existing schemas

Accomodation

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

Equilibrium

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

Stages at Ages

Sensorimotor (0-2 Years)

Object Permanence

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

Infantile Amnesia

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

Pre-operational (2-7 Years)

Egocentrism

Definition: Seeing world from own
perspective rather than others

Centration

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

Reversibility

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

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

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

Formal Operation (11+/Adolescence)

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