Jean Piaget

Question 1

Jean Piaget’s Theory

Answer 1

-Desire to understand the world comes from our need for equilibrium.
- If we don’t understand something, we try to restore balance by either changing our thoughts or by altering our experience to fit what we understand.

Question 2

Schemas

Answer 2

• Like file folders in the brain.
• Organized patterns of knowledge.
• Logic and reason.

Question 3

Equilibrium

Answer 3

• balance of everything you know.
• the point where everything makes sense.

Question 4

Disequilibrium

Answer 4

• when you acquire new information.
• you don’t know it yet.
• Unfamiliar.

Question 5

Assimilation

Answer 5

When new information is similar to something you already know.

Question 6

Accommodation

Answer 6

When a change is needed or something needs to be created to understand new information.

Question 7

Adaptation

Answer 7

The process of making sense of new information.

Question 8

Object Permanence

Answer 8

When a child knows an object is there even when they can’t see it.

Question 9

Piaget Phase 1

Answer 9

Sensorimotor Phase (Birth to 2 years)

• child develops object permanence.
• focuses on the senses of touch, sight, sound, smell, and taste.

Question 10

Piaget Phase 2

Answer 10

Preoperational Phase (2 to 6 years)

• Preschool/Kindergarten
• child is egocentric
• plays pretend
• begins to develop language
• forms many new schemes
• prelogical thinking

Question 11

Piaget Phase 3

Answer 11

Concrete Operational Phase (6 to 12 years)

• Elementary
• logical thinking
• hands-on classification
• conservation (tall, skinny glass vs. short, fat glass)

Question 12

Piaget Phase 4

Answer 12

Formal Operational Phase (12 to 18 years)

• Middle/High School
• higher level logical thinking, reasoning
• prediction, critical thinking
• mental manipulation