INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT ACROSS THE LIFE STAGES

Question 1

PIAGET’S 4 STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT

Answer 1

1. Sensorimotor (0 - 2 years)
2. Preoperational (2 - 7 years)
3. Concrete Operations (7 - 11 years)
4. Formal operations (11+ years)

Question 2

CHOMSKY (LAD) THEORY

Answer 2

Every child has a “Language Acquisition Device” or LAD. (a structure in the brain infants are born with which allows them to quickly learn and understand language as they mature.

Question 3

4 ATTACHMENT TYPES

Answer 3

1. SECURE
2. AMBIVALENT
3. DISORGANISED
4. ADVOIDANT

Question 4

PIAGET’S THEORY

Answer 4

Children recognise when schemas are inaccurate and adapt them through two processes – assimilation and accommodation.

Question 5

SECURE ATTACHMENT CHARACTERISTICS

Answer 5

• able to separate from a parent
• prefers parents to strangers
  -seeks comfort from parent/caregivers if scared

Question 6

AMBIVALENT ATTACHMENT CHARACTERISTICS

Answer 6

• be wary of strangers
• become very distressed when parent/caregiver leaves
• do not appear to be comforted in the return of a parent/caregiver

Question 7

DISORGANISED ATTACHMENT CHARACTERISTICS

Answer 7

• struggle to feel safe
• emotional behaviour

Question 8

ADVOIDENT ATTACHMENT CHARACTERISTICS (AINSWORTH)

Answer 8

• avoid emotional closeness
• feel guilty
• restrain from clinginess

Question 9

AINSWORTH THEORY (ATTACHMENT)

Answer 9

• Children and infants need to develop a secure dependence on their parents before seeking unfamiliar situations.