PSY 457LEC Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Balance Theory, Task Analysis, Egocentrism
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Intellectual ability of an individual, learned through qualitative changes without skipping a step, How jean piaget thought of children, children as scientists, learned through qualitative changes with steps (without skipping stages) According to piaget, the process by which new ideas and experiences are absorbed and incorporated into existing mental structures and behaviors. (action patterns) According to piaget, a mental process that restructures existing schemas so that new information is better understood. (modifying) According to piaget, a process of maintaining a cognitive balance between our existing knowledge and new experiences, how children shift from one stage of thought to the next. A stage of development that begins at birth and lasts through infancy in which infants acquire information about the world by sensing it and moving around with it. A-not-b error: until 12 months or a year old. At what from age does the sensorimotor stage occur, according to piaget? zero to 2 years old.
