Cognitive Development - Piaget: Assimilation & Accommodation (Intro Psych Tutorial #175)

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In this video I introduce the work of developmental psychologist Jean Piaget. Piaget proposed a stage-based theory for how we develop our cognitive abilities. Piaget viewed children like little scientists who were constantly testing and updating their knowledge structures, or schema, for how the world works. When encountering something new, children either assimilate this new knowledge into their existing schema, or they need to accommodate, modifying their schema in light of the new information.

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