Jean Piaget's stages

Question 1

sensorimotor stage, when

Answer 1

birth to 2 years

- infants acquire information about the world by sensing it and moving around it

Question 2

schemas (sensorimotor stage)

Answer 2

theories about or models of the way the world works

Question 3

assimilation

Answer 3

the process by which infants apply their schemas in novel situations

Question 4

accommodation

Answer 4

the process by which infants revise their schemas in light of new information

Question 5

object permanence

Answer 5

the idea that objects continue to exist even when they are not visible
(aka the impossible event - realizing the object still existed)

Question 6

preoperational stage (2-6yrs)

Answer 6

children having a prelimary understanding of the physical world

Question 7

concrete operational stage (6-11 yrs)

Answer 7

children learn how various actions or operations can affect or transform concrete objects
Key things like conservation and reversibility

Question 8

formal operation stage (11+ years)

Answer 8

children can solve non physical problems; abstract thinking