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12 Cards in this Set
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What does Piaget say about children in middle childhood?
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Children think they are invincible and it may hurt their friends but not them.
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Conservation includes what to aspects?
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-Decentration
-Reversibility |
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Conservation definition?
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The understanding that certain physical characteristics of objects remain the same, even when their outward appearance changes.
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Decentration definition?
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The ability to focus on several aspects of a problems at once and relate them
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Reversibility definition?
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The ability to go through a series of steps in a problems and then mentally reverse direction, returning to the starting point
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Seriation definition?
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The ability to order items along a quantitative dimensions, such as length and weight, arranging sticks from shortest to longest
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Spatial Reasoning definition?
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The ability to give directions and have mental representations of familiar, large-scale spaces, such a their school or neighborhood
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Classification definition?
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More aware of classification hierarchies and can focus on relations between a general category and 2 specific categories at the same time
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Four aspects of Piaget's Concrete Operational Stage?
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-Classification
-Conservation -Seriation -Spatial Reasoning |
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Definition of the Concrete Operational Stage?
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Piaget's third stage, extending from age 7-11 years, in which thought becomes logical, flexible, and organized in its application to concrete information.
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Limitations of Piaget's Concrete Operational Stage?
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-Underestimated children's cognitive abilities
-Did not bring in abstract thought -Does not leave room for children who do not fit into on specific stage |
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Neo-Piagetians are?
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Theorists who blended cognitive development theory with information processing theory
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