2 - intro to psych - learning approches

what is the sensory-motor stage

birth- 2 years

take in new knowledge

eventially create new behaviours through enviornment

what is the pre-operational stage

2-7 years

Children begin to use combinations or sequences of actions that can be carried out symbolically.

•At this stage children are only able to perform them as actions in the real world rather than to represent them symbolically.

can understand more abstract concepts

conservation

what is the concrete stage

7-12 years

understand rules based their experiences

what is the formal operational stage

12+

reason in a purely abstract way, without reference to concrete evidence

They can tackle problems in a systematic and scientific manner and are able to generate hypotheses about the world based on their accumulated representations of it.

what is piagets equilibration theory

when there are conflict between ones views and anothers views which cause conflict that needs to be overcome

what is the process of equilibration

schema

assimilation

accomadation

equilibrium