Piaget_Theory_Applied_To_Education

Piaget Theory Applied To Education Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development – Assignment 1 Our thinking changes drastically, though slowly, from our birth to our maturity because we constantly strive to make sense of the world. According to Piaget, four factors interact to influence changes in our thinking over our lives. These factors are biological maturation, activity, social experiences, and equilibrium. Piaget concluded that we inherit two basic tendencies, or invariant functions. Organization is the combining and averaging then recombining and rearranging of thoughts and behaviors into a more coherent system. Adaption is the tendency to adjust thoughts and behaviors to the environment. Piaget described our organized system of thought allowing us to mentally represent objects and events of our world, as schemes. These basic building clocks of thinking can be very small and very specific, like the “sucking on a straw” scheme or the “recognize and carnation” scheme. The simple structures are continuously combined and coordinated to become larger and more general like the “drinking scheme” or a “categorizing plants” scheme. In addition to the tendency to organize our psychological structures, we also inherit a tendency to adapt to our environment. The basic processes of adaption are assimilation and accommodation. Assimilation is a process of trying to comprehend children, line, asked, thinking, reading, one, two, students, shorter, group, test, schemes, piaget, new, first, days, theory, teacher, school, scheme, same, piaget’s, hand, go, child, week, pre-operational, existing, because, world, thought, tendency, structures, stages, solving, showed