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Cognitive Theory Flashcards

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Organization

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We organize our experiences, we must adjust to changing

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Adaptation to new observations and experiences by…

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Assimilation and accommodations

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Assimilation

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Taking in comparable information

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Accommodations

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Adjusting to fit new environment

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4 stages of cognitive development

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Distinct way of thinking, a different way of understanding the world

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Sensorimotor stage

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Coordinating SENSORY experiences with physical actions

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Preoperational stage

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Represent the world with WORDS & IMAGES.

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Concrete operational stage

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Child can now REASON LOGICALLY about events and classify objects into different sets

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Formal operations stage

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Adolescent REASONS IN MORE ABSTRACT logical ways

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Piaget

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Cognitive development is the combined result of maturation of the brain and nervous system and adaptation to our environment

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