Cognitive Development Flashcards
Sensorimotor stage [AGE]
Infancy & Toddlerhood
Coordination and integration of motor activities with sensory perceptions [ST]
Sensorimotor stage
Learning is enhanced through movement and manipulation of environment [ST]
Sensorimotor stage
Preoperational stage [AGE]
Early childhood (3-5)
emphasizes child and inability to think things through without acting things out [ST]
Preoperational stage
Begins to develop ability to recall past experiences. Causation. Transitional period [ST]
Preoperational stage
Logical, rational thought processes & ability to draw logical conclusions [ST]
Concrete operations
Understands cause-and-effects through Conservation [ST]
Concrete operations
Formal operations [AGE]
Adolescence (12-19)
Attained higher level reasoning [ST]
Formal operations
Fully developed. Accumulates knowledge through experiences. [AGE]
Young adult (20-40)
Ability to learn stays stable. Dialetical thinking [AGE]
Middle adult (41-64)
Crystallized intelligence & Fluid intelligence [AGE]
Older adults (65+)
Allows young children to understand that people can make things happen [KT]
Precausal thinking
Believe they can control natural phenomenon [KT]
Animistic thinking
Can consider two premises & draw logical conclusion [KT]
Syllogistic reasoning
Ability to recognize that properties of object stay the same even though the appearance and position changes [KT]
Conservation
Ability to search for complex and changing understandings to find a variety of solutions [KT]
Dialetical thinking
Intelligence absorbed over time, increasing with experience but can be impaired by disease [KT]
Crystallized thinking
Capacity to perceive relationships, to reason, perform abstract thinking which declines as degenerative changes occur [KT]
Fluid thinking
Belief that illness is due to consequences [KT]
Causation
Order of Cognitive Development
1) Sensorimotor
2) Preoperational
3) Concrete operational
4) Formal operational
