Chapter 8: Lifespan Development of Human Potential
Learning Objectives
- Describe how Piaget’s overarching principles of assimilation, accommodation, and schema development can serve to integrate the cumulative interactive effects of heredity and experience
- Describe the tasks Piaget developed to study acquisition of conservation of number, mass, and liquid volume
- Relate adaptive learning principles to Baumrind’s parental styles and Kohlberg’s stages of moral thinking
