EDU 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Lev Vygotsky, Problem Solving
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Ex: this block is a box of cereal. Kids get into problems when playing and have to figure out how to get out of them. Children organize what they learn from their experiences. Interactions with the physical environment is critical for learning and development. Children think in qualitively different ways at different age levels. Interaction with other people is critical for learning and development. Children adapt to their environment through the processes of assimilation and accommodation. Adaptation: intellectual adaptation involves assimilation and accommodation in balance with each other. It is a unitary event , from which assimilation and accommodation are abstractions. Equilibrium/disequilibrium: children prefer to be in equilibrium, where they can comfortably respond to the environment with existing schemas. But new info and situations create disequilibrium, necessitating accommodation. As we get older we rely on language to mediate our thought. If we can"t don"t know the word it"s even hard to think.
