Human Growth and Development Flashcards
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Created universal stages of psychological development with each stage representing a qualitative difference in the way people think
Piaget
Concept that child constructs cognitive development
Constructivism
How a child constructs knowledge about the world
Scheme
patterns of organized thought or behavior
Schema
learn from an existing scheme (using cognitive structure that already exists)
Assimilation
modifying a scheme to incorporate new information (creating a new cognitive structure)
Accommodation
balance of assimilation and accommodation in a new situation
Equilibration
philosophy of the nature of knowledge
Genetic Epistemology
Piaget- 0-2 Years old
Sensorimotor
Piaget- 2-7 years old
Preoperational
Piaget 7-11 years old
Concrete Operational
Piaget 11+ years old
Formal Operational
Piaget’s 4 stages of Cognitive Development
- Sensorimotor
- Preoperational
- Concrete Operational
- Formal Operational
Piaget’s Stage: experiencing the world through senses, language used for demands and cataloguing, object permanence
Sensorimotor
Piaget’s Stage: symbolic thinking, use of syntax and grammar to express concepts, imagination and intuition, conservation, not using abstract thinking yet
Preoperational
Piaget’s Stage: concepts attached to concrete situations, time, space, quantity all understood and can be applied, but not as independent concepts
Concrete Operational
Piaget’s Stage: Theoretical, hypothetical, counterfactual thinking, abstract logic and reasoning, strategy and planning, applying learning from one context to another
Formal Operational
Demonstrated with beakers or water in different shapes
Conservation
Only ___% of adults ever make it to the formal operational stage.
50
THEE name in moral development who studied Piaget, but thought he needed more depth , so created his own Stages of Moral Development
Lawrence Kohlberg
2 terms-doing the right thing due to parents/teachers, etc.
Heteronomous Morality/Moral Realism
Understand rules are made by people and can be adjusted
Autonomous Morality
Kohlberg says Morality is a decision, not a ______.
Trait
Lawrence Kohlberg’s 6 Stages of Moral Development
- Avoiding Punishment
- Aiming at a Reward
- Good Boy and Good Girl Attitude
- Loyalty to Law and Order
- Justice and the Spirit or the Law
- Principled Thought: Universal Principles of Ethics