Piaget'S Cognitive Developmental Theory

Question 0

adaptation

Answer 0

building schemes through direct interaction with the environment

Question 1

schemes

Answer 1

specific psychological structures that change over time and are organized ways of making sense of experiences

Question 2

create new schemes or adjust old ones after noticing that our current ways of thinking does not capture the environment completely

Answer 2

accommodation

Question 3

use our current schemes to interpret the external world

Answer 3

assimilation

Question 4

implies a steady comfortable condition

Answer 4

cognitive equilibrium

Question 5

cognitive equilibrium more ___ than ____

Answer 5

assimilation than accommodation

Question 6

when children have cognitive discomfort

Answer 6

disequilibrium

Question 7

disequilibrium more ___ than ___

Answer 7

accommodation than assimilation

Question 8

change schemes through a process that takes place and internally, apart from direct contact with the environment

Answer 8

Organization

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Organization

Answer 9

when children form new schemes they rearrange them linking them with other schemes to create a strongly interconnected cognitive system

Question 10

when do schemes reach equilibrium?

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once they become a large network of interconnected systems that can be applied to the physical world

Question 11

when the sensorimotor development take place

Answer 11

infancy and toddlerhood

Question 12

how many substages of sensorimotor stage are there

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6

Question 13

first stage of sensorimotor stage

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reflective schemes birth-1mont

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Second stage of the sensorimotor stage

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primary circular reactions 1-4mth

Question 15

simple motor habits centered around The Infants own body; limited anticipation of events

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primary circular reactions

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third stage of the sensorimotor stage

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secondary circular reactions 4-8mths

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actions aimed at repeating interesting effects in the surrounding world; imitation of familiar behaviors

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secondary circular reactions

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fourth stage of the sensorimotor stage

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coordination of secondary circular reactions 8-12

Question 19

intention or goal directed behavior; ability to find a hidden object in the first location in which it is hidden; improved anticipation of events; imitation of behaviors slightly different from those that the infant usually performs

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coordination of secondary circular reactions

Question 20

fifth stage of the sensorimotor stage

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tertiary circular reactions 12-18

Question 21

exploration of the properties of objects by action on them in new ways; imitation of new behaviors; ability to search in several locations for hidden objects

Answer 21

tertiary circular reactions

Question 22

six stage of the sensorimotor stage

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mental representation 18-24

Question 23

internal depictions of objects and events as indicated by sudden solutions to problems; invisible displacement; deferred imitation

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mental representations

Question 24

moro reflex

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flinging arms wide and bringing them back toward the body

Question 25

palmer grasp

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closing fingers toward palm to hold object

Question 26

stepping reflex

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stepping motions when sole of feet touch hard surface