COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT BY PIAGET

Question 1

viewed intelligence as a process that helps an organism adapt to its environment

Answer 1

Jean Piaget

Question 2

children actively construct new understandings of the world based on their experiences

Answer 2

Constructivism

Question 3

occurs through 3 related processes: Adaptation, Organization, and Equilibration

Answer 3

Cognitive Growth

Question 4

tendency to create categories

Answer 4

Organization

Question 5

ways of organizing information about the world that govern the way the child thinks and behaves in a particular situation

Answer 5

Schemes

Question 6

how children handle new information in light of what they already know

Answer 6

Adaptation

Question 7

incorporating it into existing cognitive structurs

Answer 7

Assimilation

Question 8

adjusting one’s cognitive structures to fit the new info

Answer 8

Accomodation

Question 9

children want what they understand of the world to match what they observe around them

Answer 9

Equilibration

Question 10

first stage of Jean Piaget’s cognitive development, from infancy to toddlerhood

Answer 10

Sensorimotor