Cognitive Development

Question 1

The development of thinking problem solving and memory

Answer 1

Cognitive development

Question 2

Theorist that believed based on observations children form mental schemas and concepts as they experience new situations and events

Answer 2

Piagets

Question 3

What are Piagets 4 distinct stages of cognitive development

Answer 3

Sensorimotor
Preoperational
Concrete operations
Formal operations

Question 4

Which of Piagets stages is from birth to 2 yo, and child explores the world using their senses and ability to move

Answer 4

Sensorimotor

Question 5

By the end of sensorimotor stage what does the child develop?

Answer 5

*Object permanence

concepts and mental images represent objects people etc

Question 6

Piaget believed children 1st try to understand new things in terms of schemes thats already posess in a process called?

Answer 6

Assimilation

Question 7

Example of assimilation

Answer 7

Child might see and orange and say apple because both are round

Question 8

The process of altering or adjusting old schemes to fit new information and experiences

Answer 8

Accomodation

Question 9

An example of object permanence and its importance

Answer 9

Game of peek-a-boo, mommys face is still going to be there

Critical step in developing language and abstract thought

Question 10

Preoperational stage

Answer 10

No longer rely on sensory and motor skills and can now ask questions, pretending and make believe is possible, cannot logically think

Question 11

In the preoperational stage, kids believe that anything that moves is alive

Answer 11

Animism

Question 12

Limitation in preoperational stage, the INABILITY to see the world through anyone else’s eyes except ones own
Example

Answer 12

Egocentrism

Child wants to give grandma a action figure because thats what he would want

Question 13

Focusing only on one feature of some object rather than taking all features into consideration

Answer 13

Centration

Question 14

The inability to understand that altering the appearance of something does not change its amount

Answer 14

Conservation

Question 15

Preoperational children fail at 1.

Answer 15

Conservation

Question 16

Age 7-12, becomes capable of logical thought processes but is not yet capable of abstract thinking

Answer 16

Concrete operations

Question 17

12 to adulthood, The adolescent becomes capable of abstract thinking

Answer 17

Formal operations stage

Question 18

A developmental psychologist who outlined a theory of the development of moral thinking

Answer 18

Lawrence Kohlberg

Question 19

What is Kohlbergs three levels of morality

Answer 19

Preconventional morality
Conventional morality
Postconventional morality

Question 20

The level of morality where outcome is based on consequences (re-warded is right being punished is wrong)

Answer 20

Preconventional morality

Question 21

Child who still the toy from another child does not get caught does not see that action as wrong

Answer 21

Preconventional morality

Question 22

Level of morality in which the standard is always right, noncomfority is wrong

Answer 22

Conventional morality

Question 23

Child criticizes his or her parents for speeding because reading is against posted law

Answer 23

Conventional morality

Question 24

Level of morality where it is ran by principles

Answer 24

Postconventional morality

Question 25

I reporter who wrote a controversy old story goes to jail other than reveal the source identity

Answer 25

Postconventional morality