PSYC*1130 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Motor Skill, Major Minor Records, Motor System
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Piaget"s theory of development: stages of development, contribution to our understanding of children"s development. Developmental psychology before piaget: before piaget revolutionized our understanding of. Children"s development psychology was dominated by the influence of two opposed theoretical views of. As a result of cognitive adaptions they become better able to understand their world: piaget"s theory is therefore the best example of the organismic world view that we discussed in. Chapter 1, which portrays children as inherently active, continually interacting with the environment, in such a way as to shape their own development: piaget"s theory is referred to as a constructivist theory. Adaption: assimilation and accommodation: assimilation - the process through which children incorporate new experiences into their preexisting schemes - that is, they assimilate the new to their already-existing schemes of thought. Assimilation and accommodation always occur together: schemes - mental structures in the child"s thinking that provide representations and plans for enacting behaviours.
