Chapter 6 Flashcards
What are schemes?
In piaget theory….action or mental representation that organize knowledge
What is assimilation?
Piagets concept of children using existing knowledge
What is accommodation?
Adjustesting schemes to fit new experience
What is organization?
Concept of grouping isolated thoughts
What is organization?
Concept of grouping isolated thoughts
What is sensorimotor stage?
Birth to 2 years
Seeing…cordination… physical action
What is object permanence?
When infants realize that things go on even when not in view
What is the preoperation stage?
Second stage of development is between 2 and 7.
Words…images…drawings
What are operations?
The act of doing something in your mind
What is egocentrism?
Ability to distinguish between peoples perspective
What is animism?
When you give a thing that is not living living words
What is conservation?
Awareness that altering the appearance of an object or a subsrwdme does not change its basic properties
What is concrete operational stage?
7 to 11
Reasoning and logic
