Piagats developmental theory

Adaptation What It says: adapting to the world through assimilation and accommodation Assimilation The process by which a person takes material Into their mind from the environment. Which may mean changing the evidence of their senses to make It fit. Accommodation The difference made to one’s mind or concepts by the process of assimilation Note that assimilation and accommodation go together: you can’t have one without the other. Allocations The ability to group objects together on the basis of corn features. Class Inclusion The understanding, more advanced than simple classification, that some classes or test of objects are also sub-sets of a larger class. (E. G. There Is a class to objects called dogs. There Is also a class called animals.

But all dogs are also animals, so the class to animals includes that to dogs) Conservation The realization that objects or sets to objects stay the same even when they are changed about or made to look different. Deceleration The ability to move away trot one system to classification to another one as appropriate. Egocentrics The belief that you are the centre of the universe and everything revolves around you: the corresponding inability to see the world as someone else does and adapt to t.

Not moral “selfishness”, Just an early stage of psychological development Operation The process of working something out in your head, Young children On the seniority and operational stages) have to act, and try things out in the real world, to work things out (like count on fingers): older children and adults can do more in their heads Schema (or scheme) The representation In the mind of a set of perceptions, ideas, and/or actions, which go together Stage A period In a child’s development In which he or she Is capable of understanding some things but not others