Chapter 1.4 Flashcards
It is the scientific study of how people behave, think, and feel.
Psychology
________ as “of, relating to, being, or involving conscious intellectual activity, such as thinking, reasoning, or remembering”
cognitive
________ was a Swiss clinical psychologist known for his pioneering work in child development. He pioneered the “theory of cognitive development,”
Jean Piaget
a comprehensive theory about the development of human intelligence
Theory of Cognitive Development
This theory dealts with the nature of knowledge itself, and how humans gradually come to acquire, construct, and use it
Theory of Cognitive Development
It is a progressive reorganization of mental processes resulting from biological maturation and environmental experience.
cognitive development
There are three basic to Piaget’s cognitive theory. These are:
Schemas
Adaptation
Stages of cognitive development
These are the building blocks of knowledge.
Schemas/schemes
_______ are mental organizations that individuals use to understand their environments and designate action.
Schemes
It involves the child’s learning processes to meet situational demands.
Adaptation
They reflect the increasing sophistication of the child’s thought process.
Stages of Cognitive Development
According to Piaget, the knowledge children acquire is organized into _______ (scheme) or groupings of similar actions or thoughts.
schemas
__________ is the application of previous concepts to new concepts.
For example, a child who was just learned the word “fish,” shouts “fish!” upon seeing one.
Assimilation
___________ happens when people encounter completely new information or when existing ideas are challenged.
accommodation
Piaget’s four stages of cognitive development:
Sensorimotor
Preoperational
Concrete Operational
Formal Operational
The child learns by doing: looking, touching, sucking, the child also has a primitive understanding of cause-and- effect relationships.
Object permanence appears around 9 months.
Sensorimotor
The child uses language and symbols, including letters and numbers.
Egocentrism is also evident. Conservation marks the end of the preoperational stage and the beginning of concrete oeprations.
Preoperational
The child demonstrates conservation, reversiblity, serial ordering, and a mature understanding of cause-andk- effect relationship. Thinking at this stage is still concrete.
Concrete Operations
The individual demonstrates abstract thinking at this stage is still concrete.
Formal Operations
__________ detailed the emergence of self-concept and asserted that the broad developmental changes observed across early childhood, later childhood, and adolescence could be interpreted within a Piagetian framework.
Dr. Susan Harter
The child describes the “self” in terms of concrete, observable characteristics,
Early childhood
The self is described in terms of traitlike constructs (e.g., smart, honest, friendly, shy) that would require the type of hierarchical organizational skills characteristic of logical thought development.
Middle to later childhood
According to Harter, this is the emergence of more abstract self- definitions, such as inner thoughts, emotions, attitudes, and motives.
Adolescence
The marked characteristic of “self” for emerging adults is having a vision of a “possible self.” It is the “age of possibilities”
Emerging adults
‘The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook,” wrote ___________(name) in his groundbreaking masterpiece, The Principles of Psychology, written in 1890. A figure commonly known as “the father of American psychology.” philosopher, psychologist, and university professor, He gave one of the earliest self-theory psychological analyses.
William James