Chapter 4 Flashcards
________ is when there is pre-existing schemas in our brain change with new information.
Accommodation
________ is how we see and adapt to new information by using pre-existing schemas/knowledge.
Assimilation
_________ _________ (Piaget Stage) cognitive development between the ages of 2 and 6; it includes language and imagination (in addition to the senses and motor skills of infancy), but logical operational thinking is not yet possible.
Pre-operational thinking
What are the 5 obstacles to logical operation?
- egocentrism
- centration
- focus on appearance
- static reasoning
- irreversibility
________ is a characteristic of pre-operational thought in which a young child focuses (centers) on one idea, excluding all others.
Centration
_______ is Piaget’s term for children’s tendency to think about the world entirely from their own personal perspective.
Egocentrism
_________ on ________ is a characteristic of pre-operational thought in which a young child ignores all attributes that are not apparent.
Focus on appearance
______ _______ refers to thinking that nothing changes: Whatever is now has always been and always will be.
Static reasoning
________ the idea that nothing can be undone; the inability to recognize that something can sometimes be restored to the way it was before a change occurred.
Irrevesibility
______ in thinking is when a person whose cognition is stimulate and directed by older more skilled members of society.
Apprentice
______ ________ the process by which people learn from others who guide their experiences and explorations.
Guided participation
_______ of ________ ________ refers to the skills that a person can exercise only with assistance, not yet independently.
Zone of proximal development
_______ is temporary support that is tailored to a learner’s needs and abilities and aimed at helping the learner master the next task in a given learning process
Scaffolding
_____ speech is internal dialogue that occurs when people talk to themselves (either silently or out loud).
Private
_______ _______ is a function of speech by which a person’s cognitive skills are refined and extended thorugh both formal instruction and causal conversation.
Social mediation