Class 4 - Jean Piaget's Cognitive Developmental Theory

Question 1

jean Piagets cognitive development

Answer 1

involves development based on learning right from wrong
uses play theory, all children go through each stage, but at different times. think, reason, language. includes assimilation and accomodation

Question 2

Piagets assimilation

Answer 2

incorporating new experiences into knowledge you already have

Question 3

Piagets accomodation

Answer 3

new ideas developed

Question 4

Piagets: birth - 2 years sensorimotor

Answer 4

intellectual abilities: processes form reflexives instinctual action at birth to the beginning of symbolic thought. understanding of the world constructed by coordination sensory experiences with physical actions

Question 5

Piagets: 2- 7 years preoperational

Answer 5

child begins to represent the world with words and images which reflect increased symbolic thinking and go beyond the connection of sensory information and physical action

Question 6

Piagets: 7-11 years concrete operations

Answer 6

child can reason logically about concrete events and classify objets into different sets

Question 7

piagets: 11-15 years formal operation

Answer 7

the adolescent reasons in more abstract and logical ways, thought is more idealistic