Cognitive Development - Unit 2

Question 1

Sensorimotor Stage

Answer 1

(0-2 years) Coordination of senses with motor responses, sensory curiosity about the world. Language used for demands and cataloguing.

Question 2

Preoperational Stage

Answer 2

(2-7 years) Symbolic thinking, use of proper syntax and grammar to express concepts. Imagination and intuition are strong, but complex abstract thoughts are still difficult.

Question 3

Concrete operational

Answer 3

(7-11 years) Concepts attached to concrete situations. Time, space, and quantity are understood and can be applied, but not as independent concepts.

Question 4

Formal Operational

Answer 4

(11+ years) Theoretical, hypothetical, and counterfactual thinking. Abstract logic and reasoning. Strategy and planning become possible. Concepts learned in one concepts can be applied to another.

Question 5

Object Permanence

Answer 5

(sensorimotor stage) The understanding that objects and people continue to exist even when they cannot be seen, heard, or touched.

Question 6

Egocentrism

Answer 6

(preoperational stage) The inability to consider another person’s point of view.

Question 7

Animistic Thinking

Answer 7

(Preoperational Stage) Believing that inanimate objects have feelings.

Question 8

Theory of Mind

Answer 8

(preoperational stage) The ability to attribute mental states to oneself and others and to understand others have beliefs, desires, and intentions that are different from one’s own.

Question 9

Reversibility

Answer 9

(concrete) Reverses a sequence of events or restores a changed state of affairs to the original condition.

Question 10

Conservation

Answer 10

(concrete) the understanding that two equal quantities remain equal even thought their form or appearance is rearranged.

Question 11

Categorizing

Answer 11

(concrete) Learning about class, sub-class.