Chapter 9 Flashcards
If a child is repeatedly smacking blocks on the table, by what means are they learning about the world?
The child learns through direct interaction with their environment, aka adaptation. In this example, they interact by repeatedly banging the blocks on the table which might seem useless to us, but for them, it’s not. They repeat the action to see how things function, in repeating they verify that an event will happen.
What are the three ways that children learn about the environment?
Adaptation, Assimilation, and accommodation
When a child sees a new article of clothing like a boxer and wears it as a hat by what means are they learning about the world?
When a child is given new information like the boxers, they try to interpret it and fit it into one of their old schemas. A child might take this boxer and try to eat, but it’ll eventually fit into the old schema they have, which is clothing. Specifically the schema of a hat. This still fit’s into the major idea of clothing, but they modify it rather than give it the meaning we have. In this example, they wear it as a hat even though we know that we wear it as a trouser.
If a child wears boxers as a hat, and their mother corrects them and shows them how to wear it, and from then on they wear it as trousers, by what means are they learning about the world?
Accommodation, the child learns new schemas about how things work. In this case, a major change happens, which is that the boxer does not fit into any of the schemas they have about clothing. They instead add a new schema about how to wear boxers. The child leaps in understanding. From them on they will not wear it as a hat.
What are the four stages of development that Piaget talks about?
Sensorimotor stage, preoperational thought stage, concrete operations stage, and formal operations
If a child knows that a toy still exists even if it’s covered by a blanket, what stage did they just progress through and what age range are they?
They developed object permanence, meaning they know things exist outside of their line of vision. This means they progressed through the sensorimotor stage which consists of children from the age range of birth to two years old. These children interact with the world in a sensory way, interact with objects that are defined by a physical presence. aka adaptation. They wouldn’t be able to interact with the hidden toy, because it had no physical presence.
If a child believes that their toy bear is alive, what age of the child are they and what other ways errors might I expect them to have.
They make the error of animism, the belief that inanimate objects are alive. This is an error of the preoperational thought stage that has a range of 2 to 7 years old. These children appear rational but they aren’t. You might expect them to see the world only from their own perspective called the error of egocentrism. You might also expect them to answer predictabitly incorrectly, Error of conservation:conserving quantity as physical evidence changes, (Same quantity of liquid in different sized cups)
If I ask a child: What if you could fly, wear would you travel to?; and they don’t understand. What age range might they be in?
They are probably 7 to 11 years old, because at this age they can’t understand “what-if” statements because their reasoning relies on concrete rules and not abstract concepts. They are in the concrete operations stage, where they mastered mental operations.
If I ask a child: Joe father has 3 sons. James and Jake are two of them, what is the name of the 3rd son?; and they answer Joe. What age are they in and what stage of development?
They are probably12+ years old because, at that age you can do abstract thinking like solving the riddle. Can also do scientific thinking. This stage is called formal operations
What 3 ideas did Jean Piaget discover through child studies?
Children learn by stages
Children think differently from adults
Children compare what they observe about the world to what they already know
Would Piaget say that teenagers will drive responsibly, like adults?
He would say no, because his studies shows him that children think differently from adults, they don’t think about long-time consequences like a possible accident caused by driving fast.
Would Piaget say that spaced-out learning is required when exposed to things like object permanence?
He would say no, hw would shout and say “(ONCE THEY GO IT, THEY GOT IT)”. Even if it might take more than 1 try, once they understand the idea like the toy is still their even if it’s under the blanket aka object permanence, they will never go back. This is because children progress through stages, after they understand object permanence they go from Sensorimotor stage to preoperational thought
What main idea would Piaget say about assimilation?
Children compare what they observe about the world to what they already know, fit new info like trousers into old schemas they already know.
Attachment is important for_?
social development,
Why might evolution not favor strong intelligence?
Strong intelligence correlates to attachment, an emotional bond between caregiver and child. This means the child requires to be in the care of it’s parent for a while, which results in a harsher environmental pressure rather than turtles.
