The cognitive view of human development involves the intellectual thought processes and critical thinking steps taken throughout a humans development. An example of a cognitive developmental psychologist is Jean Piaget. The main aspects of his approach to cognitive development involve schemas, assimilation, and accommodation. Schemas are described as categories of our intellectual knowledge that we use to interpret our environmental circumstances. When new information is added to our previously discovered schema, it's called assimilation. And accommodation occurs when the schema changes according to the new information we have learned or received.
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