Lisa Mulliken

Piaget is a well-known name in the early childhood world. Piaget was a Swiss psychologist who created theories of cognitive development. Piaget’s theories included the concept of schemas. In simple terms, a play schema can be thought of as a group of instructions or repeated behaviors that children use during play. Children use schemas to understand the world and, once mastered, children can apply the knowledge to a new situation or make predictions about things. Some common schemas observed in young children include: