Flashcards
Cognitive Development and Theories
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- 1Who is Jean Piaget?Piaget had a theory of cognitive development which explains how a child constructs a mental model of the world.
- 2What did Piaget disagree with?The idea that intelligence was a fixed trait.
- 3How does Piaget's theory differ from others?- It is concerned with children, rather than all learners
- It focuses on development, rather than learning, so it does not address learning of information or specific behaviours
- It proposes discrete stages of development, marked by qualitative differences, rather than a gradual increase in number and complexity of behaviours, concepts and ideas. - 4What are schemas?A schema is a cognitive framework or concept that helps organise and interpret information.
- 5Why are schemas useful?Schemas can be useful because they allow us to take shortcuts in interpreting the vast amount of information that is available in our environment.
- 6Who introduced schemas?Jean Piaget.