EDUC 1101

The Child and Adolescences Learners and Leaning Principles

Jean Piaget

Know for his theory of cognitive development

Schema

Mental presentation

Organization

A process of arranging information and experience in mental system.

Adaptation

Inherent tendency of people to adjustment of a new environment.

Assimilation

Fitting new information to existing schemas.

Accommodation

Altering existing schemas or creating new ones in response to new information.

Equalibration

The act of searching balance between cognitive schemas and information from the environment.

Sensorimotor

Experience the world through senses and actions.

Sensorimotor

Goal: Object permanence

Preoperational

Representing things with words and images but lacking logical reasoning.

Preoperational

Goal: Symbolic thinking?thought.

Concrete operational

Thinking logically about concrete events.

Concrete operational

Goal: Logical thinking

Formal operational 

Abstract reasoning

Formal operational

Goal: Scientific reasoning

Lawrence Kohlberg

Known for his theory of Stages of Moral Development.