PIAGET: Information Processing Theories

CHAPTER 2: MODULE 4:PAGES 45-57

Jean Piaget (1896-1980) A Swiss psychologist who was greatly interested in the education of children. He was the first to develop a Cognitive theory, in 1972, of how children think, from infancy to adulthood. Piaget believed that children move from one stage to the next, sequentially, although some children move faster than others.

“Basic Tendencies in Thinking”(pages 46-47)

You are going to condense your notes from the textbook reading, on to one of the graphic organizers. (Partners/trios.)

3 MAIN TOPICS: •ORGANIZATION •ADAPTATION•EQUILIBRATION

“Basic Tendencies in Thinking”(pages 46-47)

4 MAIN CONCEPTS: •schema•assimilation•accommodation•disequilibrium

Give clear descriptions and examples of these from textbook p.46-47 .

4 MAIN CONCEPTS: •schema•assimilation•accommodation•disequilibrium

3 MAIN TOPICS: •ORGANIZATION •ADAPTATION•EQUILIBRATION

(About 10-15 minutes working time.)

Give clear descriptions and examples of these from textbook p.46-47 .

4 MAIN CONCEPTS:

•Schema3 MAIN TOPICS: •ORGANIZATION

Piaget’s: SCHEMA•Basic building

blocks of knowledge.•How you organize

information tounderstand the

world around you.•Objects that are important to you as you learn in

your“ages and stages.”

Piaget’s: SCHEMA

What is an important

object that a baby

would have in her mental schema?

SCHEMA

THINK about your SCHEMA

•What is an object that you

know right now that it is important

to you?

SCHEMA

SCHEMA

SCHEMA

SCHEMA

SCHEMA

SCHEMA

THINK about your family’s SCHEMA

•What are objects that are

important to your parents, your siblings? •Especially as

they are developing

through different ages and stages?

SCHEMA As you develop and grow throughout your life, you keep adding to your Schemata.

Your brain stores all new and old schemata in mental patterns and categories.

On another graphic organizer, give examples of the next main topic and concepts:

MAIN CONCEPTS: •Assimilation•Accommodation

TOPIC: •ADAPTATION

Piaget’s: ASSIMILATION•Drawing on what you already know to make sense

of new schema.

•Organizing new information into

patterns and categories you

know.

NEW GRAPHIC ORGANIZER

SCHEMA to NEW SCHEMA

Professor Norland’s SCHEMA

I love my Mac laptop! I have been an Apple user for years!

GRAPHIC ORGANIZER

SCHEMA

MACLAPTOP

Professor Norland’s NEW SCHEMA

SURELY, I can get used to my Bethany College Windows computer and figure out how it works!

ASSIMILATION.•Drawing on

what you already know to make sense of new

schema.

•Organizing new

information into patterns and

categories you kno

GRAPHIC ORGANIZER

SCHEMA

MACLAPTOP

NEW WINDOWS COMPUTER

ASSIMILATIONHOW IS THIS LIKE RUNNING MY MAC?

Piaget’s: ACCOMMODATION

•Changing, adjusting

our schemato understand and

make sense of new schema.

•Creating new schema to make it

fit with older schema.

GRAPHIC ORGANIZER

SCHEMA

MACLAPTOP

NEW WINDOWS COMPUTER

ASSIMILATIONHOW IS THIS LIKE RUNNING MY MAC?ACCOMMODATION

ADJUST TO RIGHT CLICK-LEFT CLICK .

Child’s SCHEMA

Child knows this 4-legged animal is called a HORSE.

Child’s Schema

SCHEMA

HORSE

Child’s NEW SCHEMA

It has four legs, and it looks like a horse.

GRAPHIC ORGANIZER

SCHEMA

HORSE ZEBRA

ASSIMILATIONHAS 4 LEGS AND LOOKS LIKE A HORSE.

Piaget’s: ACCOMMODATION

•Changing, adjusting

our schemato understand and

make sense of new schema.

•Creating new schema to add to

older schema.

GRAPHIC ORGANIZER

SCHEMA

HORSE ZEBRA

ASSIMILATIONHAS 4 LEGS AND LOOKS LIKE A HORSE.ACCOMMODATION

BUT IT HAS STRIPES, AND IT’S A NEW KIND OF HORSE, CALLED A ZEBRA.

MAIN CONCEPTS: •Assimilation•Accommodation

TOPIC: •ADAPTATION

WRITE YOUR OWN EXAMPLES….

Both Assimilation and Accomodation are required to adapt to increasingly complex environments.

Give clear descriptions and examples of these from textbook p.46-47 .

MAIN CONCEPTS: •equilibrium•disequilibrium

MAIN TOPIC:

•EQUILIBRATIONTesting our thinking by searching for a balance between Assimilation and Accommodation until it fits with what we understand.

Piaget’s: EQUILIBRATION•Trying to find a balance between assimilation and

accommodation to make sense of new

schema. DISEQUILIBRIUM

•Cannot find a “fit”.•Hearing a

conversation spoken in a foreign language.

•Making sense of a complex math

problem?

Give clear descriptions and examples of these from textbook p.46-47 .

MAIN CONCEPTS: •equilibrium•disequilibrium

MAIN TOPIC:

•EQUILIBRATIONDISEQUILIBRIUM: When we are

uncomfortable because we can’t find a balance with the new schema. We must re-think it, find a new solution or way to adjust, or not change our thinking, or ignore it.

SCHEMA …Sept. 11, Twin Towers

ASSIMILATION …it must be a terrible accident of some kind?

ACCOMMODATION …the news is reporting it’s a terrorist act.

DISEQUILIBRIUM …NO, not a terrorist attack on American soil…(disbelief, does not fit in my brain)

Piaget’s: 4 stages of Cognitive Development (p.47-54)

WEDNESDAY’S ASSIGNMENT:

•Use a graphic organizer to

organize notes on pages 47-54.

4 stagesInclude key

concepts and vocabulary up to

p. 54.

Piaget’s: 4 stages of Cognitive Development (p.47-54)

Sensorimotor

Preoperational

Concrete

Operational

Formal

Operational