Key Term List: Piaget

Question 1

Accommodation principle

Answer 1

Altering one’s existing ideas (schemas) about how the world operates in response to new information and experiences

Question 2

Assimilation principle

Answer 2

Occurs when we modify or change new information to fit into our schemas.

Question 3

In which stage is Centration found, what is one of its characteristics?

Answer 3

Preoperational stage: intuitive thought: Focus on one characteristic and ignoring the others

Question 4

Disequilibrium

Answer 4

A phase where they (kids) adapt their thinking, a process based on equilibration.

Question 5

Egocentrism

Answer 5

Formal operations stage: they believe others are as interested in them as they are and that they have a certain level of invincibility

Question 6

Basic principles of Schemas

Answer 6

Is a mental structure, our cognitive framework. Help us organize and make sense of information, they are Maliable and we change them based on new information.

Question 7

Seriation

Answer 7

Concrete operational stage, children have a sense of seriation, understanding of continuum, arrange things by size, date, alphabetically, etc.

Question 8

Sub stages of sensorimotor stage: Stage 1

Answer 8

Reflexes (birth to 1month) such as grasping, hand waving and sensory information. They can see objects 8-10 inches away, investigate through hearing a close sight

Question 9

Substages of sensory motor stage: Stage 2

Answer 9

Primary circular reactions (1-4 months) is a behaviour that are repeated over and over. Reactions are based on the child’s body. (Eg.sucking a toy)

Question 10

Substages of sensory motor stage: Stage 3

Answer 10

Secondary circular reactions (4-8 months) children engage repetitive behaviours focused on interesting external objects and events. Intention is to repeat the behaviour because they want to

Question 11

Substages of sensory motor stage: Stage 4

Answer 11

Coordination of secondary circular reactions (8-12 months) infants combine multiple circular reactions and can use one reaction to help another. (Grab and throw) Begins the Object permanence, the understanding that things still exist when you can’t see them.

Question 12

Substages of sensory motor stage: Stage 5

Answer 12

Tertiary circular reactions (12-18 months). Infants use repeated behaviour on objects, they combine repeated behaviours, there can be variations of those combinations. Hide and seek game.

Question 13

Substages of sensory motor stage: Stage 6

Answer 13

Mental representation (18-24 months). Toddlers can use some words to represent objects and ideas. They can engage in pretend play (pretending a block is a car) and they can consider multiple ideas at once. They can engage in deferred imitation, where they imitate a behaviour at a later point in time.

Question 14

Transitive Inference problems

Answer 14

Concrete operational stage (7-11): They can use previous knowledge to determine a missing piece to a problem

Question 15

Types of adolescent egocentrism

Answer 15

They believe others are as interested in them as they are and that they have a certain level of invincibility