29. Cognitive Development

Question 1

concept or framework that organized and interprets info (our ideas of dogs, love, etc)

Answer 1

schemas

Question 2

interpreting our new experiences w/ new schemas

Answer 2

assimilation

Question 3

toddlers may call all 4-legged animals dog

Answer 3

assimilation

Question 4

adapting our current understandings to incorporate new info (redefines schema for dogs as too broad for cats)

Answer 4

accomodation

Question 5

what are Piaget’s developmental stages?

Answer 5

1. sensorimotor stage
2. pre-operational stage
3. concrete operational stage
4. formal operational stage

Question 6

birth to about 2; infants know the world in mostly terms of sensory impressions and motor activites

Answer 6

sensorimotor stage

Question 7

live in the moment; out of sight and out of mind

Answer 7

sensorimotor stage

Question 8

2-6 or 7; child learns to use language but doesn’t comprehend the mental operations of concrete knowledge

Answer 8

pre-operational stage

Question 9

thinks taller glass is more despite being shown it’s the same amount

Answer 9

pre-operational stage

Question 10

preschoolers are egoistic and will say Jim is bro but Jim has no bro

Answer 10

pre-operational stage

Question 11

6/7-11; children gain the mental operations that enable them to think logically about concrete events

Answer 11

concrete operational stage

Question 12

can mentally pour milk back to see equal volume

Answer 12

concrete operational stage

Question 13

about age 12; people begin to think logically about abstract concepts

Answer 13

formal operational stage

Question 14

can ponder hypothetical positions and predict consequence

Answer 14

formal operational stage

Question 15

developed by preschoolers, people’s ideas about their feelings, perceptions, and thoughts, and the behaviors these might predict

Answer 15

theory of mind

Question 16

grandma is a wolf? RUN.

Answer 16

theory of mind