Cognition & Development

Cognition & Development

1. Theories of Cognitive Development

   • Piaget
     • Child is SCIENTIST
       • Learning through active engagement and trying things out to see if they work
     • Schemas
       • sets of ideas about an object or activity which come from an experience or wider culture
     • Assimilation & Accommodation
       • Assimilation: involves using an existing schema to deal with a new object or situation
       • Accommodation: takes place when an existing schema doesn't work and so has to be modified or changed to cope with the new situation
     • Equilibrium & Disequilibrium
       • Relates to whether our schema is able to deal with the information given to us
     • Piaget's 4 stages
       • Sensorimotor (0-2)
   • Vygotsky

2. Theories of Social Cognition

   • Theory of the Mind
   • Selman's Perspective Taking
   • Autism
   • Mirror Neurons & Mu Waves

3. Theories of Moral Development

   • Kohlberg
   • Piaget