Chapter 7 Flashcards
Handedness
A strong preference for using one hand or the other that develops between 3-5 years of age
Centration
The young child’s tendency to think of the world in terms of one variable at a time
Piaget’s preoperational stage
Second stage of cognitive development, approximately 2-4yrs, during which children become proficient in the use of symbols in thinking and communicating but still have difficulty thinking logically
Egocentrism
The young child’s belief that everyone sees and experiences the world the way she does
Which of the following statments best describes the key elements of Piaget’s second stage of cognitive development
Children are able to use words to describe their world
children form stable concepts and begin to reason
children continue to be egocentric and have magical beliefs
The inability to distinguish between one’s own perspective and someone else’s perspective is called?
egocentrism
Name the two features of the Pre operational stage?
Children’s thinking is not logical
Child is not yet able to perform mental operations
What are the two difficulties in the pre operational stage?
Egocentrism
Conservation
Irreversibility
The inability, in the preoperational child, to think through a series of events or mental operations and then mentally reverse the steps.
Conservation
The understanding that the physical properties of an object or substance do not change when appearances change but nothing is added or taken away; part of the concrete operational stage.
* For some children around age 6-7
Animism is
The belief that all things are living
Animistic thinking
The belief that inanimate objects have lifelike qualities, such as thoughts, wishes, feelings, and intentions
Overregularization (my toy car breaked)
Overextending the rules of grammar to words that are exceptions
invented spelling
A strategy young children with good phonological awareness skills use when they write
corpus callosum
membrane that connects the right and left hemispheres of the cerebral cortex
