Cognitive Development Theory

Question 1

Who is the proponent of Cognitive Development Theory?

Answer 1

Jean Piaget

Question 2

The cognitive structure by which individuals intellectually adapt to and organize their environment.

Answer 2

Schema

Question 3

The process of fitting new experience into an existing created schema.

Answer 3

Assimilation

Question 4

The process of creating a new schema, different from the previous one.

Answer 4

Accommodation

Question 5

Achieving proper balance between assimilation and accommodation.

Answer 5

Equilibration

Question 6

Imbalance between assimilation and accommodation.

Answer 6

Disequilibrium

Question 7

What are the stages of cognitive development?

Answer 7

SPCF (Smart People Cook Food)

Sensorimotor (birth to 2 years)
Preoperational (2 to 7 years)
Concrete Operational (7 to 11 years)
Formal Operational (11 years and above)

Question 8

This stage focuses on the prominence of the senses and muscle movement.

Answer 8

Sensorimotor Stage

Question 9

The stage when a child is initially reflexive in grasping, sucking, and reaching.

Answer 9

Sensorimotor Stage

Question 10

The ability where he knows that an object still exists even when out of sight.

Answer 10

Object Permanence

Question 11

This stage is where preschoolers represent the world “symbolically”.

Answer 11

Preoperational Stage

Question 12

The ability to represent object and events.

Ex. Takob sa coke, himuon og baso

Answer 12

Symbolic Function

Question 13

The tendency of a child to only see his point of view and assume that everyone else also has his same point of view.

Ex. Daday bought a Barbie doll for her father’s birthday thinking that her father will like it too since she likes it.

Answer 13

Egocentrism

Question 14

The tendency of the child to only focus on one thing or event and exclude other aspects.

Ex. There’s water in a long and narrow glass and was transferred to a short and wide glass, yet the child thinks that the long and narrow glass has more water than the short and wide glass.

Answer 14

Centration

Question 15

The inability to realize that some things remain unchanged despite looking different.

Ex. 20 coins are equivalent to 20 paper bill. The child thinks that coins are more than the paper bill.

Answer 15

Lack of Conservation

Question 16

The inability to reverse their thinking.

Ex.
2+3=5 (correct)
5-2=3 (wrong)

Answer 16

Irreversibility

Question 17

The tendency of the child to attribute human like traits to inanimate objects.

Ex. Car accident - child thinks the car is hurt.

Answer 17

Animism

Question 18

Believing the psychological events such as dreams, are real.

(events that happen in the mind)

Answer 18

Realism

Question 19

The belief that natural events are man-made.

Ex. Earthquake in Davao; 2 kids (1 chubby, 1 slim)

Slim kid told the chubby kid to stop running to stop the quake; Slim kid thinks that the chubby kid is the one creating the quake.

Answer 19

Artificialism

Question 20

Errors in cause-effect relationship. Result in sequence of events (repeated events).

Ex. Parents always arrive at home when its night. If you’ll ask the kid what’s the reason why there’s night, the kid will answer “once my parents arrive at home”

Answer 20

Transductive Reasoning

Question 21

This stage is characterized by the ability of the child to think logically but only in terms of concrete objects; covers the elementary school years.

Answer 21

Concrete Operational Stage

Question 22

The ability of the child to perceive the different features of objects and situations.

Opposite of centration.

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Decentering

Question 23

The ability of the child to follow that certain operations can be done in reverse.

Ex.
2+3=5 (correct)
5-2=3 (correct)

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Reversibility

Question 24

The ability to know that certain properties of objects like number, mass, volume or area do not change even if there is a change in appearance.

Opposite of Lack of Conservation

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Conservation

Question 25

The ability to arrange things in a series based on one dimension such as weight, volume, size, etc.

Has order and rank

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Seriation

Question 26

The ability to group or classify things according to one dimension/aspect. It is based on similarity.

Answer 26

Classification

Question 27

From specific to general

Answer 27

Inductive Reasoning

Question 28

Thinking becomes more logical. They can now solve abstract problems and can hypothesize.

Answer 28

Formal Operational Stage

Question 29

Ability to come up with different hypothesis about a problem and weigh data to make judgment (conclusion).

Answer 29

Hypothetical Reasoning

Question 30

Ability to perceive the relationship in one instance and use that relationship to narrow down possible answers in similar problems.

Answer 30

Analogical Reasoning

Question 31

Ability to think logically by applying a general rule to a particular situation.

Answer 31

Deductive Reasoning