Piaget

Question 1

Known for

Answer 1

Cognitive Development

Question 2

Sensorimotor

Answer 2

[0-2] Mental representation and Object permanence; Stranger Anxiety; Understanding the world through the senses

Question 3

List the Stages in order

Answer 3

Sensorimotor
Preoperational
Concrete Operational
Formal Operational

Question 4

Mental Representation

Answer 4

Ability to form internal images of objects and events

Question 5

Object Permanence

Answer 5

Knowing something exists even if unseen

Question 6

Preoperational

Answer 6

[2-7] Egocentrism, Animistic Thinking, Centration, and Irreversibility; lacks logical reasoning

Question 7

Egocentrism

Answer 7

the inability to see things from another’s point of view

Question 8

Animistic Thinking

Answer 8

Personifying inanimate objects

Question 9

Centration

Answer 9

inability to consider more than one thing at a time

Question 10

Irreversibility

Answer 10

ability to pretend, inability to think through a process then reverse it

Question 11

Concrete Operational

Answer 11

[8-11] Conservation and Mental Operations; no abstract thinking only actual events

Question 12

Conservation

Answer 12

[think the two cups in the kitchen] physical properties don’t change when appearances do

Question 13

Mental Operations

Answer 13

solving problems by manipulating images in one’s head

Question 14

Formal Operational

Answer 14

[12-15] Abstract thought and reasoning and Scientific reasoning

Question 15

Schemas

Answer 15

Mental programs that guide a developing child’s thoughts

Question 16

Assimilation

Answer 16

modifies info to fit with schemas

Question 17

Accommodation

Answer 17

restructures existing schemas to better understand new info