EDP 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Lev Vygotsky, Cognitive Development, Educational Psychology
27 Sep 2016
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Piaget was a swiss psychologist who spent thousands of hours observing and writing. 9/27/16 about children in the early and middle 20th century. Piaget"s body of research focused on ways in which children"s development progresses as they grow older. Piaget is best known for two major ideas that serve as fundamentals of educational psychology: Cognitive skills change because we are constantly trying to make sense of the world. All species inherit two basic tendencies: organization, adaptation, organization. Organization ongoing process of combining, arranging, recombining, and rearranging of behaviors and thoughts into coherent systems or categories. Schemes: organized systems of actions or thought that allow us to mentally represent or. Think about the objects and events in our world. Equilibration organizing, assimilating, and accommodating can be viewed as a kind of complex balancing act equilibration is the act of searching for a balance.
