Chp 6 Flashcards
What view did piaget have
Constructivist
What did Piaget say children did? What were they?
Construct their own cognitive world
Little scientist
Is Piaget stage theory continuous or discontinuous
Discontinuous
What are schemes
Actions or mental representations that organize knowledge
Assimilation
Incorporate new info into existing scheme
Accommodation
Adjust scheme to fit new info into
Which is scheme? Assimilation? Accommodation?
1: cat- child knows moving things live
2: plant- child shifts scheme of what’s alive and not
3: worm- child knows these things are alive
1: scheme
2: accommodation
3: assimilation
1 stage of piaget and age
Sensorimotor (birth-2)
What is the goal of sensorimotor
Coordinate sensory experiences with physical motor action
What do children do during sensorimotor stage
Use reflex to learn abt objects
Learn cause and effect
What is object permanence and what age does it start
8-12 months
Understanding that objects and events continue to exist even when they cannot be directly perceived or sense
What is Piaget 2nd stage and age range
(2-7yr)
Pre operational
What is the goal of the preoperational phase
Represent the world with words images drawings
What is egocentrism and age range
Inability to distinguish between one’s perspective and someone else’s (2-4 yr)
What is conservation
(Awareness that altering an objects or substance’s appearance does not change its basic properties
Water task (pour into diff container
What is centration
Centering of attention on one’s characteristic to the exclusion of all others
What is Piaget stage 3 and age range
Concrete operational
(7-11 yr)
What happens during concrete operational
Logical reasoning replaces intuitive reasoning
Can complete conservation task
Limitation of concrete operational
Cannot think abstractly
What is transitivity
Reason about and combine relationships
A>B B>C. Is A>C?
What is Piaget 4th stage and age range
Formal operational
(11-15 yr)
What is the formal operational stage
What is metacognition
Can think in abstract and logical ways
Metacognition: thinking abt thinking
What is vygotaky and his views
Constructivist
Social interaction is key
Zone of proximal development
Range of tasks difficult for children to do alone but possible with help from others
Scaffolding
Adjusting guidance to fit current performance
Fade out the level of support needed for children to learn or perform task
Vygotaky and language and thought
Speech and language r tools children can use to solve tasks
Post formal thought
Reflective
Relativistic
Provisional
Recognize thought is influenced by emotions
Mechanisms of change according to Piaget
Equilibriation
Accomplished through assimilation and accommodation
