Cognitive Equilibrium A key for Cognitive Development

Cognitive Equilibrium 

A key for Cognitive Development 

Cognition

Cognition is defined as ‘the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses.'

Cognitive development is the process by which a child learns to think, problem-solve, and understand the world around them. It involves the growth and maturation of mental abilities like thinking, learning, memory, and language.

According to Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development, cognitive development is driven by a constant process of striving for cognitive equilibrium.


The  Components of Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development

1)Schemas

We can have schemas related to objects, people, events, social situations and even ourselves.

 As children have an experience, they develop a schema to explain it and organise it within their brain. .

Examples of schema

Or what about giving and receiving presents? Say it's your child's first birthday. They need some help and encouragement to open the presents because they don't really know what this whole present thing is about. Then they go to other birthday parties and start to piece it all together. Their schema builds so they know that when it's a friend's birthday, they need to buy a gift to give them.

2)The Process of Adaptation

Piaget argued that cognitive and intellectual development happens through a process of adaptation. That is, children learn by adjusting to the world. They do this through assimilation, accommodation and equilibration.

Assimilation 

The child is making sense of what they are seeing by organising it in a pre-existing category, or schema, in their brain.

Accommodations 

Where an existing schema doesn't fit the situation or experience, the child needs to take a different approach. This is called accommodation. 

They need to change their schema to explain this new winged creature that's covered in feathers. All of a sudden their animal schema is expanded.

Equilibration

Piaget believed that through assimilation, children find order in the world. When they can use their existing schemas to organise new information, they are in equilibrium.


Cognitive Equilibrium for Cognitive development 

Cognitive Equilibrium is how children move their development forward through the accommodation of new knowledge and experiences.

This balance occurs when existing knowledge and beliefs align with new information, creating a sense of understanding and stability. 



Compiled By

Ms Naresh Kuwar



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