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jean piaget
children actively construct their cognitive world using
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schemas
concepts of framework that organizes info
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assimilation
incoporate new info into existing schemas
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accomodation
adjust schemas to new info
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sensorimotor
- birth-2 years
- coordinate sensations w/ movements, learn about the world by coordinating sensory experiences w/ motor actions; object permanence happens
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peroperational
- 2-7 years
- thought is more symbolic, rep. the world w/ words and images, intuitive reasoning; egocentrisim
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concrete operational
- 7-11 years
- operational thinking (conservation) classifcation skills, replaces intuitive reasonings w/ logical reasoning in conrete situations
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formal operational
- 11-15 years
- lasts through adulthood, abstract and idealstic thinking, making predictions, using logic to come up w/ hypothesis about the future
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