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14 Cards in this Set
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Adaptation |
process of using environment to learn and adjust to changes around us -assimilation and accomodation |
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Assimilation |
taking new info and fitting it into existing ideas, based in prior knowledge |
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Accomodation |
changing existing mental ideas to fit new info, creating new catergory |
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Schemas |
idea about what something is and how it works |
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1. sensorimotor stage |
age - birth to two years -construct understanding of world through sensory experience -object permanence is developed |
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2. Pre-Operational Stage |
age - two to seven years old - ego centric, difficult seeing things from another perspective -symbolic thinking (words or pictures to represent) -where assimilation occurs |
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3. Concrete Operational Stage |
age - seven to twelve years old -understand conservation (ml, size) - able to organise things into catergories -classification, accomodation |
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4. Formal Operational Stage |
age - twelve and over -more complex thought process - develops abstract thinking - develop own ideas about morality, values, beliefs
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Criticisms of Piaget |
-underestimate young minds -failed to account interactions with others -didn’t distinguish between competence and performance |
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lacking validity due to: |
-use of unfamiliar materials -use of language that uses conservational rules -using tasks that measure education not development -competence v performance |
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Unfamiliar materials and situations |
Hughes Policeman Task - four walls, hide from the policeman Donaldson argued that they passed the policeman task cause hiding is familiar and makes sense, where three mountain task is too abstract |
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use of language that breaks conservational rules |
Siegal (1991) problems arise when the adult questions or repeats the question, children believe they’re wrong and change answer to please examiner |
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Performance v Competence |
Children might be able to reason, but can’t physically explain principles involved, lack verbal expression |
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Using tasks that measure education rather than development |
Seagrim and Lendon (1980) Hermannsberg Project -compared cognitive development of Aboriginal v white culture in schools -tests of conservation and classification -Aboriginal students in same school as white are as capable as each other - native Aboriginals lagged in all aspects |
