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Developmental Series Flashcards

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What are the Piagets stages of cognitive development?

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Sensorimotor

Preoperational

concrete Operational

Formal Operational

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What is the age range for sensorimotor stage of piagets statges of cognitive development?

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0-2 (SENSation is everything, becoming MObile.

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what is the age range for preoperational stage of piagets stages of cognitive development?

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2-7 (preschoolers)

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what is the age range for concrete operational stage of piagets stages of cognitive development?

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7-12 (kids jumping rope and playing hopscotch on CONCRETE)

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what is the age range for formal operational stage of piagets stages of cognitive development?

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12-adulthood (teenagers may or may not attend a formal dance at school)

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Descibe the sensorimotor stage of piagets stage of cognitive development.

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Learning through the 5 senses, manipulating objects, simple trial and error

develop coordination, object recognition

OBJECT PERMANENCE - knowing object still exists even if not in sight anymore

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Describe the preoperational stage of piagets stages of cognitive development.

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Thinking relationally

SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATION - chefs hat = chef cooking in kitchen

EGOCENTRISM - only able to see their own perspective

ANIMISM - believing objects have human thoughts and emotions (usually their own)

CENTRATION - focusing on one aspect of a story at a time and ignoring the rest

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Describe the concrete operational stage of piagets stages of development.

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inductive logical reasoning (drawing conclusions from details)

CONSERVATION - able to understand wider glass with lower fill line might hold more water than skinnier glass with higher fill line

CLASSIFICATION - able to separate items by shared qualities and put them into hierarchies

REVERSIBILITY - knowing things can be put back to original state (retrace steps in backwards fashion, count backwards)

SERIATION - able to arrange objects according to quantitative value (this can include abstract quantities such as age)

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Describe the formal operational stage of piagets stages of cognitive development.

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abstract thinking

DEDUCTIVE REASONING

PROBLEM SOLVING (MORE COMPLEX)

HYPOTHETICALS (in detail and broadening)

CONSTRUCTING ARGUMENTS

METACOGNITION - thinking about the process of thought, philosophical reflections

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