Texas PPR Exam (TX Teachers Review) 2024

Texas PPR Exam (TX Teachers Review) 2024 Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development - ANS ️️ Jean Piaget, a Swiss psychologist, developed a theory of how cognition develops and changes over time. Piaget proposed that a child's intellect progresses through four stages: 1. Sensorimotor (birth to 2 years) 2. Preoperational (2 to 7 years) 3. Concrete operational (7 to 11 years) 4. Formal operational (11 years to adulthood) Children learn through active interaction and manipulation of the environment. The stage the child is in determines how they see the world. Piaget believed all students pass through the stages in order and cannot skip any stage. Schemes - ANS ️️ Mental patterns that guide behavior; cognitive structures that help children process and organize information to make sense of the environment Assimilation - ANS ️️ Understanding new experiences in terms of existing schemes Accommodation - ANS ️️ Modifying existing schemes to fit new situations in the environment. When old ways of dealing with the environment don't work, a child modifies an existing scheme stimulated by new information or a new experience Adaptation - ANS ️️ The process of adjusting schemes in response to the environment through assimilation or accommodation. According to Piaget, this is how learning occurs. Equilibration - ANS ️️ The process of restoring balance between present understanding and new experiences. According to Piaget, learning depends on this