Cognitive Development Flashcards
The development of thinking problem solving and memory
Cognitive development
Theorist that believed based on observations children form mental schemas and concepts as they experience new situations and events
Piagets
What are Piagets 4 distinct stages of cognitive development
Sensorimotor
Preoperational
Concrete operations
Formal operations
Which of Piagets stages is from birth to 2 yo, and child explores the world using their senses and ability to move
Sensorimotor
By the end of sensorimotor stage what does the child develop?
*Object permanence
concepts and mental images represent objects people etc
Piaget believed children 1st try to understand new things in terms of schemes thats already posess in a process called?
Assimilation
Example of assimilation
Child might see and orange and say apple because both are round
The process of altering or adjusting old schemes to fit new information and experiences
Accomodation
An example of object permanence and its importance
Game of peek-a-boo, mommys face is still going to be there
Critical step in developing language and abstract thought
Preoperational stage
No longer rely on sensory and motor skills and can now ask questions, pretending and make believe is possible, cannot logically think
In the preoperational stage, kids believe that anything that moves is alive
Animism
Limitation in preoperational stage, the INABILITY to see the world through anyone else’s eyes except ones own
Example
Egocentrism
Child wants to give grandma a action figure because thats what he would want
Focusing only on one feature of some object rather than taking all features into consideration
Centration
The inability to understand that altering the appearance of something does not change its amount
Conservation
Preoperational children fail at 1.
Conservation
Age 7-12, becomes capable of logical thought processes but is not yet capable of abstract thinking
Concrete operations
12 to adulthood, The adolescent becomes capable of abstract thinking
Formal operations stage
A developmental psychologist who outlined a theory of the development of moral thinking
Lawrence Kohlberg
What is Kohlbergs three levels of morality
Preconventional morality
Conventional morality
Postconventional morality
The level of morality where outcome is based on consequences (re-warded is right being punished is wrong)
Preconventional morality
Child who still the toy from another child does not get caught does not see that action as wrong
Preconventional morality
Level of morality in which the standard is always right, noncomfority is wrong
Conventional morality
Child criticizes his or her parents for speeding because reading is against posted law
Conventional morality
Level of morality where it is ran by principles
Postconventional morality
I reporter who wrote a controversy old story goes to jail other than reveal the source identity
Postconventional morality
