Cognitive Development Flashcards

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Who was Jean Piaget?

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1896-1980, genetic epistemologist and developmental psychologist who observed and wrote about his children

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What is an epistemologist?

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someone who studies the nature of knowledge

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How many books did Piaget write?

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40+, 18,000 pages

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What is the concept of discrete stages of development?

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constant order of succession based on genetic potential and experience, no stages can be skipped because each stage lays groundwork for subsequent stages

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What is the child’s role in moving through discrete stages of development?

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the child is actively engaged in acquiring knowledge and constantly exploring the environment

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What are the basic components of Piaget’s discrete stages?

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schema/schemata, assimilation and accommodation

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What is schema/schemata?

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organized patterns of knowledge based on interactions with the environment, start as reflexes to complex actions to mental representations

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What is assimilation?

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interpreting external objects, places, people, events in terms of our present way of thinking

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What is accommodation?

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changing cognitive structure (schema) and expanding what we know aka dog to poodle and car to SUV

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What is the cat schema example?

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1) boy has learned schema of cat (schema) 2) boy saw a cub and called it “cat” sister said “no it’s a cub” (assimilation) 3) he accommodates new schema of cub (accommodation)

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What is an infants favorite scheme to explore the world?

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banging

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What are the 4 cognitive stages from Piaget?

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sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operations, formal operations

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When does the sensorimotor cognitive stage occur?

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birth to 2 years

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When does the preoperational cognitive stage occur?

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2-7 years

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When does the concrete operations stage occur?

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7-12 years

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When does the formal operations stage occur?

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12+ years

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What are the 6 substages of sensorimotor cognitive stages?

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reflex activity, primary circular reactions, secondary circular, coordination of secondary schemes, tertiary circular and beginning of representational thought

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What is the reflex activity substage of sensorimotor?

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innate reflexes to fulfill a need, rooting, sucking, grasping

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When is the reflex activity substage of sensorimotor?

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birth to 1 month

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When is the primary circular reaction substage of sensorimotor?

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1-4 months

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What is the primary circular reaction substage of sensorimotor?

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repear actions that they enjoy ex: sucking, stop and look at an object when grasping (early hand eye coordination), object permanence= out of sight out of mind, look where it was last

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What is the secondary circular reaction substage of sensorimotor?

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attention on objects, often unexpected result, repeat actions like shake, drop, bang, object permanence=rattle drops-partly covered or rattle drops fully covered

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When is the secondary circular reaction substage of sensorimotor?

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4-8 months

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When is the coordination of secondary schemes substage of sensorimotor?

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8-12 months

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What is the coordination of secondary schemes substage of sensorimotor?

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infant tries to solve a problem to achieve a goal/want, anticipate events, object permanence= still incomplete, hide toy under A baby looks under A, baby watches you hide toy under B but still looks under A

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When is the tertiary circular substage of sensorimotor?

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12-18 months

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What is the tertiary circular substage of sensorimotor?

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active experimentation, repeats actions but differently, object permanence=will search under different cloths but only if they watched the object being hidden

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When is the beginning of representational thought substage of sensorimotor?

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18-24 months

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What is the beginning of representation thought substage of sensorimotor?

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mental image of objects or events, not just now but past and future, symbolic functioning

30
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What is symbolic functioning?

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use symbols to represent what is not present aka signs vs symbols

31
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When is the preoperative stage?

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2-7 years

32
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What 3 behaviors emerge in the preoperation stage?

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deferred imitation, symbolic play, and sophisticated language skills

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What is deferred imitation?

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tea party, teaching school, something they have observed before

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What is symbolic play?

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use objects as something else ex: arms out running=airplane

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What is the egocentric component of the preoperation stage?

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world revolves around the child, think that others share their views feelings and desires, unable to see other perspective, mountain test

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What is the conservation component of the preoperation stage?

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amount remains the same even though the shape may change ex: cutting a sandwich

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What is the tendency to focus on a single aspect part of preoperation stage?

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may be task dependent, 10 wooden beads 7 blue 3 white child says there are more blue than wooden

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What is the irreversibility of thought part of preoperation stage?

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addition good, subtraction hard// do you have a sister? yes. does your sister have a sister? no.

39
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What is the acquires concepts part of preoperation stage?

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knows a dog, shapes are easy while numbers are harder

40
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When is the concrete operations stage?

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7-12 years

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What skills are added with the concrete operations stage?

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increased capacity for memory and understands reversibility/ thinks logically

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What parts of conservation are understood in the concrete operations stage?

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recognize change in multiple features, reciprocity- if you change one feature it can be balanced by another (water in glass), concept of horizontal decalage/increasing (#, length, liquid, mass, area, weight, volume), may be culture dependent, may be presentation dependent

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What is the seriation aspect of concrete operations?

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ability to arrange objects in an orderly series ex: simple to complex or short to long

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What is the transitive reasoning aspect of concrete operations?

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A>B and B>C the A>C

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When does the formal operations stage occur?

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12+

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What does a child gain the ability to do in the formal operations stage?

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able to think in the abstract and solve problems systematically, consider all variables of the problem, able to consider different points of view and different variables