COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT THEORY Flashcards
a swiss psychologist known for his work on child development
Jean Piaget
Piaget’s theory of cognitive development and epistemological view are together called____
“Genetic Epistemology”
is achieving proper balance between assimilation and schema
Equilibration
refers to the ability to consider mutiple aspects of situation
Dcentering/Decentration
a child can form symbolic function or think about objects even though they are not real or present
Symbolic Function
a tendency of a child in the preoperational stage of cognitive development to see a connection between unrelated instances, using neither deductive or inductive means to do so
Transductive Reasoning
during this stage, young children are able to think about things symbolically
Stage 2: Pre-operational stage
reversibility is the inability to reverse the direction of a sequence of events to their starting point under what stage?
stage 2
conservation is the ability to understand that redistributing material does not affect its mass, number, volume or length under what stage?
stage 3
this is the stage where children can think multiple variables by systematic ways, formulate hypothesis, and consider possibilities
stage 4: post-operational stage
what age encompass stage 2 of cognitive development?
2-7 years old
individuals adapt and organize to their environment
schema
the process of fitting what the child has learnt from new experiences into their existing concepts or schema
assimilation
under what age is stage 1: sensorimotor stage?
0-2 years old
it is the process by which individuals change their way of thinking, behaving and believing come into accord with reality
accommodation
in this stage, the child focuses on what is in front of them
stage 1: sensorimotor stage
in this stage, the child engages in make believe and symbolic function
stage 2: pre-operational stage
under what age is stage 4: formal operational stage?
11+ years old
the ability to come up with different hypothesis about a problem and to gather and weight data
hypothetical reasoning
the ability to perceive relationship in one instance and then use the relationship to narrow down possible answers
analogical reasoning
this is when the child only focus on the height on the container rather than both height and width when determining what has the biggest volume
centration
this is the belief that objects have also human feelings and intentions
animism
refers to the child’s inability to see a situation from other person’s POV
egocentrism
the ability to think logically by applying a general rule to a particular instance or situation
deductive reasoning