PSYCH 2AA3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Lev Vygotsky, Color Blindness, Hans Moravec
7 Nov 2017
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They always want to make sense of their experience and thus construct their understanding of the world. Children create often incomplete and incorrect theories about how the world works. The theories are valuable b/c they make the world seem more predictable. Assimilation occurs when new experience are readily incorporated into a child"s existing theories. Accommodation: occurs when a child"s theories are modified based on experience. Often makes new theories or makes existing theories more precise. E. g. a baby discovering they can grasp multiple things. Kids can readily assimilate most experiences into their existing theories. Sometimes though, the balance is upset and a state of disequilibrium results. Children discover that their current theories aren"t adequate b/c they"re spending much more time accommodating than assimilating. When disequilibrium occurs, children reorganize their theories to return to a state of equilibrium, a process called equilibration.
