chapter 4(week 5)(part one) Piagaets stage theorist Flashcards
what three things work together from birth to propel development forward.
Stages are constructed through processes
of assimilation, accommodation, and
equilibration
Piagets stage theory
View of Children’s Nature
Constructivist approach
Why did he call it Constructivist
Constructive processes involves…
because it depicts children as constructing knowledge for themselves in response to their experiences.
Generating hypotheses
* Performing experiments
* Drawing conclusions
Central Properties of Piaget’s Stage Theory
His theory believed in Qualitave change which means what
How was his theory broad?
discontionus change which means differant ages = different thinking
provided frameowkr for understanding children brains
Central Properties of Piaget’s Stage Theory
His theory believed in breif trasition which means what
His theory believed in invariant sequence which means what
that the trasitioning between the stages were very short periods of time
that all children went through the same stuff in the same order
Piaget’s Stage Theory consisted of four stages
name them all and the ages
Sensorimotor Stage (Birth to Age 2 Years)
Preoperational Stage (Ages 2 to 7)
Concrete Operational Stage(7-12)
Formal Operational Stage(12 and beyond)
Sensorimotor Stage (Birth to Age 2 Years)
Sensorimotor intelligence:
Birth to 1 month: ___( example)
Beyond first few months: using reflexes to
_____
8 months: ___
Senses and motor skills
reflexes (sucking, grasping)
grasp and bring to mouth
Object permanence
Sensorimotor Stage (Birth to Age 2 Years)
Beyond first year: actions based on
_____
* 1 year: ____
* 18 to 24 months:
Beyond first year: actions based on
interest of child
1 year: little explorer
18 to 24 months: deferred imitation:
repeating behaviors of others
Sensorimotor Stage (Birth to Age 2 Years)
A-not-B-task:
tendency to reach for a
hidden object where it was last found,
rather than in the new location where it
was last hidden
Preoperational Stage (Ages 2 to 7)
Symbolic representation
definition and example
Use of one object to stand for another
example stick as a sword
Preoperational Stage (Ages 2 to 7)
Centration
definition and example
Centration is the act of focusing all attention on one characteristic or dimension of a situation while disregarding all others. An example of centration is a child focusing on the number of pieces of cake that each person has, regardless of the size of the pieces
Preoperational Stage (Ages 2 to 7)
Egocentrism
Perceiving the world solely from one’s
own point of view
Preoperational Stage (Ages 2 to 7)
Conservation concept
Changing the appearance of objects
does not necessarily change the
properties
Imagine a 2-year-old and 4-year-old eating lunch. The 4-year-old has a whole peanut butter and jelly sandwich. He notices, however, that his younger sister’s sandwich is cut in half and protests, “She has more!” He is exhibiting centration by focusing on the number of pieces, which results in a conservation error.
Concrete Operational Stage(Ages 7 to 12)
Children begin to reason
logically about concrete
features of the world
Systematic and hypothetical
thinking difficult
Formal Operational Stage
(Age 12 and Beyond)
Think abstractly and reason
hypothetically.
* Not universal
* Adolescent thinking expands and
enriches intellectual life.
Piaget’s Legacy
Piaget’s theory remains ___
Weaknesses
-____
-Infants and young children are more
____
-Depicts thinking as more ___
than reality
influential
Vague
cognitively competent
consistent
