Cognitive Development Flashcards

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What are the fours stages of Piaget?

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1) Sensorimotor - birth to 2 years
2) pre-operational - 2 to 7 years
3) concrete operational - 7 to 11 years
4) formal operational - 11years +

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What is Piaget’s definition of Cognition?

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The mental processes by which knowledge is acquired, elaborated, stored, retrieved and used to solve problems - learning through action and a focus on how children think rather than what they know

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What is the sensorimotor stage?

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6 sub stages - knowing surroundings by seeing and touching, essentially knowing only by doing.

Object permanence occurs at 8 months and recognition of self of the agent of action

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What is the preoperational stage?

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Centration. Thinking about one idea at a time (whilst excluding others) and a self created world view and difficultly taking another’s perspective - as shown by the 3 mountain problem.

Demonstrate an understating of conservation of: mass, number and volume.

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What is the concrete operational stage?

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Consideration of information in a logical manner, can only deal with real or imaginable occurrences.

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What is the formal operational stage?

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Considering alternatives and planning ahead, ability to systematically test a hypothesis, the basis of adult thinking.

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What are schemas?

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Theories about how the social and physical world operate.

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What is assimilation?

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Understanding a new object.

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What is accommodation?

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Modifying a schema

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What is operation?

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Consideration of information in a logical manner

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What is conservation?

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Understanding that amount is unrelated to appearance.

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How was and is Intelligence tested?

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IQ used to be mental age/chronological age * 100. But it is now calculated from a table of standardised age scores.

Weschler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) tests both verbal IQ and performance IQ

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What is localisation of cognitive function?

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Left hemisphere: complex language, complex logical and maths.

Right hemisphere: simple language, spatial and pattern, emotional recognition.

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