jean piaget questions and answers all are correct 2024 graded A+

jean piaget - hypothesized that cognitive development involved forming schemas, which are mental frameworks that shape, and are shaped by, our experience theory of cognitive development - explains how a child constructs a mental model of the world -a process which occurs due to biological maturation and interaction with the environment -described his work as genetic epistemology (origins of thinking) -was interested in how fundamental concepts such as number, time, quality, causality, and justice emerged three components to piaget's cognitive theory - schemas, adaptation processes that enable the transition from one stage to another, and stages of cognitive development schemas - basic building blocks of knowledge, and enable us to form a mental representation of the world -best thought of as units of knowledge, each relating to one aspect of the world, including objects, actions, and abstract (theoretical) concepts when he talked about the development of a persons mental processes, he was referring to - increases in the number and complexity of the schemata that a person had learned when a childs existing schemas are capable of explaining what it can perceive around it, its said to be in a state of - equilibrium adaptation processes that enable the transition from one stage to another - equilibrium, assimilation, and accommodation assimilation - using an existing schema to deal with a new object or situationaccommodation - happens when the existing schema doesnt work, and needs to be changed to deal with a new object or situation equilibration - force which moves development along -occurs when a childs schemas can deal with most new info through assimilation -the force that drives the learning process as we do not like to be frustrated and will seek to restore balance by mastering the new challenge (accommodation) -once the new info is acquired, the process of assimilation w/the new schema will continue until next time we need to make an adjustment to it stages of cognitive development - sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational sensorimotor - birth to 2 -object permanence is main goal, which is knowing that an object exists even if it is hidden -requires the ability to form a mental representation (schema) of the object preoperational - 2-7 -able to think symbotically, due to the ability to make one thing (word or object) stand for something other than itself -thinking is still egocentric and the infant has difficulty taking the viewpoint of others concrete operational - 7-11 -major turning point, marks beginning of logical or operational thought -child can work things out internally in their head -can conserve number (age 6), mass (age 7), and weight (age 9)