PSYCH211 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Computer Hardware, Jean Piaget, Long-Term Memory
29 Feb 2016
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Early levels of stimulation can affect a children"s later levels of capacity in terms of both cognitive ability and biological functioning. Jean piaget research in developmental psych by experimenting on children. Intelligent behaviour as resulting from a child"s attempt to adapt to the environment. Are like scientists, they create theories about how the world works. Valuable theories because make the world seem more predictable. Development results from their active engagement with their experiences in the world. Enables them to reach more advanced levels of maturation. Both experience and maturation important in piagetian theory. Schemas psychological structures that organize experience. Schemas are mental categories or conceptual models of interrelated events, object, and knowledge that children build as they gain experience with situations, people, and objects around them. Example: for infants, most schemas are based on an infant"s own actions. How aspects of their world relate to each other collect this together in schemas.
