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 .
3 MAIN TOPICS:
•ORGANIZATION
•ADAPTATION
•EQUILIBRATION
4 MAIN CONCEPTS:
•schema
•assimilation
•accommodation
•disequilibrium
(About 10-15 minutes working time.)
Give clear descriptions and examples
of these from textbook p.46-47 .
3 MAIN TOPICS:
4 MAIN CONCEPTS:
•ORGANIZATION
•Schema
Piaget’s: SCHEMA
•Basic building blocks
of knowledge.
•How you organize
information to
understand 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:
TOPIC:
•ADAPTATION
MAIN CONCEPTS:
•Assimilation
•Accommodation
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
MAC
LAPTOP
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
MAC
LAPTOP
NEW
WINDOWS
COMPUTER
ASSIMILATION
HOW IS THIS LIKE RUNNING MY MAC?
Piaget’s: ACCOMMODATION
•Changing, adjusting
our schema
to understand and
make sense of
new schema.
•Creating new
schema to make it fit
with older schema.
GRAPHIC ORGANIZER
SCHEMA
MAC
LAPTOP
ASSIMILATION
HOW IS THIS LIKE RUNNING MY MAC?
ACCOMMODATION
NEW
WINDOWS
COMPUTER
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
ASSIMILATION
HAS 4 LEGS AND LOOKS LIKE A HORSE.
Piaget’s: ACCOMMODATION
•Changing, adjusting
our schema
to understand and
make sense of
new schema.
•Creating new
schema to add to
older schema.
GRAPHIC ORGANIZER
SCHEMA
HORSE
ZEBRA
ASSIMILATION
HAS 4 LEGS AND LOOKS LIKE A HORSE.
ACCOMMODATION
BUT IT HAS STRIPES, AND IT’S A NEW
KIND OF HORSE, CALLED A ZEBRA.
WRITE YOUR OWN EXAMPLES….
TOPIC:
•ADAPTATION
MAIN CONCEPTS:
•Assimilation
•Accommodation
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 TOPIC:
MAIN CONCEPTS:
•EQUILIBRATION •equilibrium
•disequilibrium
Testing 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 TOPIC:
MAIN CONCEPTS:
•EQUILIBRATION •equilibrium
•disequilibrium
DISEQUILIBRIUM: 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 stages
Include key concepts and
vocabulary up to p. 54.
Piaget’s: 4 stages of Cognitive
Development (p.47-54)
Sensorimotor
Preoperational
Concrete Operational
Formal Operational