Jean Piaget Flashcards

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After earning a doctorate in Zoology in his hometown in Switzerland, he went to explore the field of psychology because according to him humans like living organisms adapt to their environmen

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Jean Piaget

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Theory of Cognitive Development

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Jean Piaget

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to refer to the child’s cognitive structure or framework of thought.

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Schemata

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is the process of thinking, knowing and perceiving

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Cognition

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The child’s interaction with the environment comprises:

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Assimilation
Accomodation
Organization

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involves taking in the experiences from the from the environment

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Assimilation

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occurs when what is taken in from the environment does not match the existing structure and thus changes the structure to match the new information

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Accomodation

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is the process of placing one’s ideas into a coherent state of order

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Organization

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4 Major Stages in the Cognitive Development

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Sensorimotor period
Pre operational period
Period of concrete operation
Period of formal operation

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Sensorimotor age

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0-2

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Pre operational age

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2-7

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at the end of this stage, reasoning becomes intuitive. The child begins

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Pre operational period

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Concrete operations age

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7-11

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self-exploration of objects

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Sensorimotor period

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Formal operations

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11 yrs to adulthood

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The child begins to work with problems of weight, length, size and time

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Pre operational period

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sort, classify, order and organize facts of the world.

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Period of Concrete Operations

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Collects everything and classify

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Period of concrete operations

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Able to deal with abstract symbols, solve problems, develop hypotheses, test them and reach conclusion.

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Period of formal operations

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Swiss Psychiatrist. He believed that libido was broadly derived from life energy not just from sex

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Carl gustav Jung

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Austrian psychologist/ Psychotherapist- first student of Freud o ‘birth trauma’ causes primal anxiety

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Otto Rank

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Swiss born American psychiatrist. Originator of the word ‘mental hygiene

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Adolf Meyer

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Emphasizes on considering the total individual from all points of view ‘HOLISM’

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Adolf meyer

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Austrian Psychologist . Coined the word ‘inferiority complex’

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Alfred Adler

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Emphasized ego rather than sexuality.

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Alfred Adler