Chp 6

Question 1

What view did piaget have

Answer 1

Constructivist

Question 2

What did Piaget say children did? What were they?

Answer 2

Construct their own cognitive world
Little scientist

Question 3

Is Piaget stage theory continuous or discontinuous

Answer 3

Discontinuous

Question 4

What are schemes

Answer 4

Actions or mental representations that organize knowledge

Question 5

Assimilation

Answer 5

Incorporate new info into existing scheme

Question 6

Accommodation

Answer 6

Adjust scheme to fit new info into

Question 7

Which is scheme? Assimilation? Accommodation?
1: cat- child knows moving things live
2: plant- child shifts scheme of what’s alive and not
3: worm- child knows these things are alive

Answer 7

1: scheme
2: accommodation
3: assimilation

Question 8

1 stage of piaget and age

Answer 8

Sensorimotor (birth-2)

Question 9

What is the goal of sensorimotor

Answer 9

Coordinate sensory experiences with physical motor action

Question 10

What do children do during sensorimotor stage

Answer 10

Use reflex to learn abt objects
Learn cause and effect

Question 11

What is object permanence and what age does it start

Answer 11

8-12 months
Understanding that objects and events continue to exist even when they cannot be directly perceived or sense

Question 12

What is Piaget 2nd stage and age range

Answer 12

(2-7yr)
Pre operational

Question 13

What is the goal of the preoperational phase

Answer 13

Represent the world with words images drawings

Question 14

What is egocentrism and age range

Answer 14

Inability to distinguish between one’s perspective and someone else’s (2-4 yr)

Question 15

What is conservation

Answer 15

(Awareness that altering an objects or substance’s appearance does not change its basic properties

Water task (pour into diff container

Question 16

What is centration

Answer 16

Centering of attention on one’s characteristic to the exclusion of all others

Question 17

What is Piaget stage 3 and age range

Answer 17

Concrete operational
(7-11 yr)

Question 18

What happens during concrete operational

Answer 18

Logical reasoning replaces intuitive reasoning
Can complete conservation task

Question 19

Limitation of concrete operational

Answer 19

Cannot think abstractly

Question 20

What is transitivity

Answer 20

Reason about and combine relationships
A>B B>C. Is A>C?

Question 21

What is Piaget 4th stage and age range

Answer 21

Formal operational
(11-15 yr)

Question 22

What is the formal operational stage
What is metacognition

Answer 22

Can think in abstract and logical ways
Metacognition: thinking abt thinking

Question 23

What is vygotaky and his views

Answer 23

Constructivist
Social interaction is key

Question 24

Zone of proximal development

Answer 24

Range of tasks difficult for children to do alone but possible with help from others

Question 25

Scaffolding

Answer 25

Adjusting guidance to fit current performance Fade out the level of support needed for children to learn or perform task

Question 26

Vygotaky and language and thought

Answer 26

Speech and language r tools children can use to solve tasks

Question 27

Post formal thought

Answer 27

Reflective Relativistic Provisional Recognize thought is influenced by emotions

Question 28

Mechanisms of change according to Piaget

Answer 28

Equilibriation Accomplished through assimilation and accommodation