Child Development Flashcards
What is four stages of Piaget cognitive development theory?
1) Sensorimotor
2) Preoperational
3) Concentre operational
4) Formal operational
What is the assimilation and accommodation in the sensorimotor phase?
Assimilation - Creating schemes to understand how the world works
Accommodation - Rethink this schemes through a new experience
What is the concept of object permanence
A child in the sensorimotor phase can’t understand that an object continue there, even tough you are not seeing it
What is the A-not B error?
When a child fail to understand that the object switched of the position A to B, they will still look at the same traditional position
What are the things the kids in the preoperational things can’t comprehend
Conservation - Using the concrete concepts in a logic manner regarding the property of things (water and cup)
Irreversibility - Can’t recreate in their minds an action in the reverse sense
What is egocentric thinking in the preoperational phase?
Kids don’t have the notion of the perception of others people mind. (They can cover the face and think that they are hided from others)
What happens in the concrete operational phase?
Kids gain the capacity to execute tasks relating central concepts. (They know that a grey sponge is not a rock)
What is the achievements in the formal operational phase?
Gain abstract thinking
- can think about the future, freedom
- understand others people mind
- we use logic-hypothesis to try to understand different explanations to a phenomenon
What is beyond Piaget theory that he could not explain
1) Kids have much more abilities than Piaget considered (notion of non-sense physical reality)
2) The achievements of each phase are much more early than he predicted
3) The stages are a continuum and not divided by phases
What is the long-term consequences of the marshmallow test
