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Cognitive Development and Learning

Author: Erick Taggart

Source: Design Museum Denmark Arne Jacobsen, Arne Jacobsen's first chair - Chinese influence, taken by Iglazier618 http://www.flickr.com/photos/67302687@N05/6132758281/ Toy Blocks; Public Domain http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LEGO-02.jpg

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Terms to Know
Accommodation

Either modifying an existing schema to fit new information, or creating a new schema.

Assimilation

Adding new information to an existing schema, or mental pattern.

Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development

Jean Piaget’s theory of cognitive development explains how children’s mental processes and understanding of the world changes in four stages: Sensorimotor, Preoperational, Concrete Operational, and Formal Operations.

Schema

The basic mental structures around which we construct our knowledge.