Growth and lifespan development

Question 1

Frameworks that develop to help organize knowledge

Answer 1

Schema

Question 2

The process of taking new information or a new experience and fitting it into an existing schema

Answer 2

Assimilation

Question 3

The process by which schemes are changed or created in order to fit new information.

Answer 3

Accommodation

Question 4

Sensorimotor:

1. What stage
2. What ages
3. Primary mechanism
4. Key benchmark

Answer 4

Stage 1
0-2 years
Info gained through senses and movement, no reasoning
Object permanence is acquired

Question 5

Preoperational
Stage
Age
What emerges
Main limitation

Answer 5

Stage 2
2-7
Symbolic thought and low level reasoning
Egocentrism, no conservation

Question 6

Concrete operational
Stage
Age
Change
Limitation

Answer 6

3
7-12
Increasing logical thought, less egocentric
No abstract or hypothetical reasoning

Question 7

Formal operational
Stage
Age
Change

Answer 7

4
12-adult
Abstract scientific thinking

Question 8

Name piaget stages and age range

Answer 8

Sensorimotor 0-2
Preoperational 2-7
Concrete operational 7-12
Formal operational 12-adult

Question 9

Object permanence acquired at what stage?

Answer 9

Sensorimotor