Schemas

Schemas
* children view the world through schemas ( as do adults for the most part)
* schemas are ways we interpret the world around us
* it is basically what you picture in your head when you think of anything
Assimilation
* incorporating new experiences
Accommodation
* changing an existing schema to adopt to new information
Stages of cognitive development
* sensorimotor stage
0-2
* experiences the world through our senses
* do not have object permanence
Preoperational Stage
2-7
* have object permanence
* begin to use language to represent objects and ideas
* Egocentric: cannot look at the world through anyones eyes but their own.
Conservation
* conservation refers to the idea that a quantity remains the same despotr changes in appearance and Is part of logical thinking.
Concrete Operational Stage
* can demonstrate concept of conservation
* learn to logically
Formal Operational Stage
* abstract reasoning
*manipulate objects in our minds without seeing them
* hypothesis testing
* trial and Error
* metacognition
* not every adult gets to this stage