COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT THEORY

Question 1

a swiss psychologist known for his work on child development

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Jean Piaget

Question 2

Piaget’s theory of cognitive development and epistemological view are together called____

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“Genetic Epistemology”

Question 3

is achieving proper balance between assimilation and schema

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Equilibration

Question 4

refers to the ability to consider mutiple aspects of situation

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Dcentering/Decentration

Question 5

a child can form symbolic function or think about objects even though they are not real or present

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Symbolic Function

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a tendency of a child in the preoperational stage of cognitive development to see a connection between unrelated instances, using neither deductive or inductive means to do so

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Transductive Reasoning

Question 7

during this stage, young children are able to think about things symbolically

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Stage 2: Pre-operational stage

Question 8

reversibility is the inability to reverse the direction of a sequence of events to their starting point under what stage?

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stage 2

Question 9

conservation is the ability to understand that redistributing material does not affect its mass, number, volume or length under what stage?

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stage 3

Question 10

this is the stage where children can think multiple variables by systematic ways, formulate hypothesis, and consider possibilities

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stage 4: post-operational stage

Question 11

what age encompass stage 2 of cognitive development?

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2-7 years old

Question 12

individuals adapt and organize to their environment

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schema

Question 13

the process of fitting what the child has learnt from new experiences into their existing concepts or schema

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assimilation

Question 14

under what age is stage 1: sensorimotor stage?

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0-2 years old

Question 15

it is the process by which individuals change their way of thinking, behaving and believing come into accord with reality

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accommodation

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in this stage, the child focuses on what is in front of them

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stage 1: sensorimotor stage

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in this stage, the child engages in make believe and symbolic function

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stage 2: pre-operational stage

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under what age is stage 4: formal operational stage?

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11+ years old

Question 19

the ability to come up with different hypothesis about a problem and to gather and weight data

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hypothetical reasoning

Question 20

the ability to perceive relationship in one instance and then use the relationship to narrow down possible answers

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analogical reasoning

Question 21

this is when the child only focus on the height on the container rather than both height and width when determining what has the biggest volume

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centration

Question 22

this is the belief that objects have also human feelings and intentions

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animism

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refers to the child’s inability to see a situation from other person’s POV

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egocentrism

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the ability to think logically by applying a general rule to a particular instance or situation

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deductive reasoning

Question 25

this is the cognitive structure

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schema

Question 26

he study philosophy of education

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Jean Piaget

Question 27

it is defined as “learn by doing”

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contravist

Question 28

this is the adjusted ideas or knowledge

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accommodation

Question 29

they engage in dramatic play, what stage?

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stage 2: pre-operational

Question 30

their thinking is based on intuition and still not completely logical, what stage?

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stage 2: pre-operational

Question 31

children’s thinking at this stage becomes less egocentric and they are increasing aware of external events

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stage 3: concrete operational

Question 32

this is the stage where children can already ponder relationships and concepts such as justice

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stage 4: formal operational stage

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this is the stage wherein the child does not have accommodation yet but rather just schema and assimilation

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stage 2: pre-operational stage

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this key concept is prior to experiences or existing schema of the child

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assimilation

Question 35

how many stages are there in cognitive development of Piaget?

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4 stages

Question 36

this is the stage where the child begin to realize that one’s own thought and feelings are unique and may not be shared by others or may not even be part of reality

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stage 3: concrete operational stage