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What premise is Piaget's theory of cog development based on? |
That people actively construct their higher levels of knowledge from elements contributed by biological and environment |
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What is assimilation? |
Incorporation of new knowledge into existing cognitive schemas (i.e. child saying airplane is a bird) |
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What is accomodation? |
The modification of existing schemas to incorporate new knowledge |
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What are the stages of cognitive development in Piaget's theory? |
1. Sensorimotor stage (birth to 2 years) 2. Preoperational stage (2 to 7 years) 3. Concrete operational stage (7 to 11 years) 4. Formal operational stage (11+ years) |
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What happens in sensorimotor stage? |
-Birth to 2 years -Children understand things by using senses (i.e. hitting, sucking on things, how things feel) -Accomplish object permanance (8 mos), begin to grasp understanding of causality (10 mos), and development of symbolic thought (18 mos) |
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What happens in preoperational stage? |
-2 to 7 years -Key characteristic is symbolic functioning; extention of symbolic thought and permist child to learn through the use of language, mental images, and other symbols. -Able to engage in symbolic play |
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What other factors are present in preoperational stage? |
-Precausal reasoning (incomplete understanding of cause/effect) -Magical thinking: thinking about something will make it occur -Animism: attribute human characteristics to inanimate objects -Egocentrism: unable to separate his perspective from that of others -Child does not recognize that things can be reversed |
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What happens in concrete operational? |
-7 to 11 years -Capable of mental operations which are logical rules for transforming and manipulating info. -Able to classify in more sophisticated ways |
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What happens in formal operations? |
-11+ years -Person is able to think abstractly, relativistically, and hypothetically. |
