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11 Cards in this Set
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Transformation |
The ability to record a process of change |
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Reversibility |
The ability to mentally undo a change or transformation |
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Seriation |
The ability to order things in a series according to increasing or decreasing length, weight, or volume |
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Classification |
The ability to group on the basis of common characteristics or attribute |
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Conservation |
The ability to see that the amount of something stays the same regardless of its shape or container |
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Piaget's stages of cognitive development |
1. Sensorimotor stage - birth to age 2 2. Preoperational stage - ages 2 to 6 3. Concrete operational stage - ages 6 to 12 4. Formal operational stage - ages 12 and older |
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Sensorimotor stage |
Ages birth to two years, children are egocentric and not aware of things outside their immediate environment. Learning results from pulling, pushing, turning, twisting, rolling, poking, and interaction with many different properties of objects. |
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Preoperational stage |
Ages 2 to 6 years, children come to realize that objects continue to exist outside their immediate environment even when they cannot be seen. Learning involves discovering distinct properties and functions of objects as they compare, sort, stock, roll, distinguish triangles from squares, and begin to use some beginning abstraction to communicate. The ability to conserve sometimes but not always begins toward the end of this stage. |
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Concrete operational stage |
Ages 6 to 12 years, children with the ability to conserve, begin to use symbols, and learn to classify with multiple attributes. |
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Formal operational stage |
Ages 12 and older, this final stage is not guaranteed by achieving a specific age. The formal operational learner is now able to make use of symbols and logical systems to build new knowledge. At this upper level children can interpret ideas, think independently, and combine new abstractions to create new ideas. Some students never achieve this level. |
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Four factors that impact the progression through the stages of cognitive development |
1. Maturation 2. Physical experience 3. Social interaction 4. Equilibrium, meaning that the mind seeks to resolve questions that occur |
