1. AP Psychology
10/8/13

2. Essential Question
How important is Piaget’s theory of cognitive development?
Evaluate each stage in terms of its influence on understanding, accuracy, and critiques.

3. Piaget Early 1900s—constructivism.
Much different understanding of human mind—he argued what?
What is a schema?

4. Assimilating & Accommodating
The schemas that humans are influenced by our experiences: we assimilate experiences & accommodate schemas.
Assimilating: dogs have four legs, so four-legged animals are dogs. A cow is a dog.
Accommodating: other animals have four legs, so we need new names for these animals. Cows, dogs, and cats are all categories for animals now.
Come up with your own example of assimilating & accommodating within schemas.

5. Sensorimotor Key idea: senses Ages: birth - 2 years
Object permanence:
Stranger anxiety: around 8 months, those who are unknown are identified as potentially threatening

6. Preoperational Key idea: developing mental skills
Ages: or 7 years
Conservation:
Egocentrism:
Theory of mind: the ability to infer others’ mental states

8. Concrete Operational Key idea: thinking logically
Ages: 6 or or 11 years
Understand conservation & mathematical transformations

9. Formal Operational Key idea: thinking abstractly Ages: 12 - adulthood
Abstract logic (if x, then y. x, so y)
Imagined situations & symbols are understood

10. Piaget’s stages of cognitive development
Create a short poem that will help your classmates remember each stage.
2-3 people per group

11. Critiquing Piaget…
RIGHT WRONG

12. Essential Question
How important is Piaget’s theory of cognitive development?
Evaluate each stage in terms of its influence on understanding, accuracy, and other critiques.

13. Homework
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