DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
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Interpreting our new experiences in terms of our existing schemas. (Mistaking something for the wrong thing.)
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A concept or framework that organizes and interprets information. (Learning something for the first time.)
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Adapting our current understandings to incorporate new information. (Fixing the mistake.)
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Balance between assimilation and accommodation.
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Detailed explanation-1: -A schema is a cognitive framework or concept that helps organize and interpret information. We use schemas because they allow us to take shortcuts in interpreting the vast amount of information that is available in our environment.
Detailed explanation-2: -A schema, or scheme, is an abstract concept proposed by J. Piaget to refer to our, well, abstract concepts. Schemas (or schemata) are units of understanding that can be hierarchically categorized as well as webbed into complex relationships with one another. For example, think of a house.
Detailed explanation-3: -Schema-a concept or framework that organizes and interprets information.
Detailed explanation-4: -So, what is a schema? Put simply, it describes the vital interconnected networks of background knowledge that prove so crucial for our pupils’ learning.
Detailed explanation-5: -There are four types of these schemata, prototypes, personal construct, stereotypes, and scripts which we use to make sense of phenomena. One or all of these tools can be used to organize our perceptions in a meaningful way. The first of the schemata is known as a prototype.