exam 2 Flashcards
Piagetian
nature and nurture, continuity/ discontinuity, the active child
Information processing
nature and nurture, how change occurs
Core knowledge
nature and nurture, continuity/ discontinuity
Sociocultural
nature and nurture, influence of sociocultural context, how change occurs
dynamic systems
nature and nurture, the active child, how change occurs
Piagets theory
best known cognitive development thoery
Piaget believes that children
are mentally active at the moment of birth and that their mental and physical activity both contribute to their development
Piaget is a
constructivist
Piaget thinks children learn some lessons on their own t/f
TRUE
Piaget thinks children are intrinsically motivated to learn t/f
true
three types of continuity
assimilation, accommodation, equilibration
Assimilation
when people incorporate incoming information into concepts they already understand.
Accommodation
people improve their current understanding in response to new experiences
Equilibration
people balance assimilation and accommodation to create a stable understanding
Disequilibrium
when new information makes people realize their understanding is inadequate
Qualitative change
children of different ages think in different ways
Broad applicability
thinking characteristic of each stage influences children’s thinking across diverse topics and contexts
Brief transitions
before entering a new stage children pass through a brief transitional period in which they fluctuate between the type of thinking characteristic of the new, more advances stage and the type of thinking characteristic of the old, less advanced one
Invariant sequence
everyone progresses through the stages in the same oder without skipping any of them
Piaget’s four stages of cognitive development
sensorimotor stage, preoperational stage, concrete operational stage, formal operational stage
sensorimotor stage
Birth to 2 years, learn through senses
object permanence
A not B error
Object permanence
children’s ability to know that objects continue to exist even though they can no longer be seen or heard
Preoperational stage
2- 7 years, internal representations
some new abilities and limitations
developing symbolic representation
Egocentrism
inability to put themselves in someone else’s shoes