PSY 384 Chapter 7: Chapter 7 Notes
11 Mar 2018
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These concentrate on the ways in which people think and reason rather than if a answer is simply right or wrong. Piaget"s theory is seen as a foundation for this approach. Intellectual development is adaptation through activity we create the ways our knowledge is organized and ultimately how we think. Intellectual adaptation is done through assimilation (the use of currently available knowledge to make sense out of incoming information) and accommodation (involves changing one"s thought to make it better approximation of the world of experience) Assimilation is when we apply what we know to the world to make it understandable. Such as a young child calling every animal a dog because that is all it knows. Assimilation can distort incoming information because we try to force fit new info into our existing knowledge base. This is apparent in our tendencies to forget info about a person that goes against stereotypes.
