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Piaget Flashcards

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What is Cognition?

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How we think about things, the way we understand our world

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What was Piaget interested in?

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Genetic epistemology - genesis of knowledge

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What two main cognitive structures do we acquire?

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Mental schemata and concepts

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What is schemata?

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A mental representation of an action which includes knowledge and experience we have acquired relating to that action

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What are concepts?

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Rules that describe the properties of environmental events and how they relate to other concepts

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What is assimilation?

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When a schema is adapted to other subjects but isn’t changed

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What is equilibrium?

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The process of adapting schemata without any real change

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How do we learn schemata and concepts?

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Disequilibrium, Accommodation and Equlibriation

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What is Disequilibrium?

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Coming across an object for which the existing schema is a poor fit

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What is accomodation?

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Process of changing an existing schema

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What is equilibrium between?

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disequilibrium and accommodation.

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What are the 4 stages of Cognitive Development?

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Sensorimotor, Preoperational, Concrete operations, Formal operations

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What happens in Stage 1?

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Discovery of relations between sensation and motor behaviour - familiarity with objects

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What happens in Stage 2?

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Use of symbols to represent objects
internally, especially through language - evidence of thinking abstractly

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What happens in Stage 3?

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Mastery of “logic” and development
of rational thinking - Flexibility

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What happens in Stage 4?

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Development of abstract thinking and hypothetical reasoning - conservation

17
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What are the features of preoperational thought?

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Symbolism, Egocentrism, Inability to engage in operations

18
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What are the 3 ways to promote conservation?

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Compensation, reversibility and identity

19
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What is conservation?

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A recognition that some properties of objects remain fundamentally unchanged despite a change in external appearance

20
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What methodological concerns are there?

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Use of case studies, natural observations

21
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What criticisms are there?

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Under estimation of ages - object permanence min 8-9 months

22
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What is object permanence?

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Children understanding something continues to exist even if not perceptually visible

23
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What did Gelman argue about conservation?

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Children judging here and now not what happened before

24
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What did Rose and Blank find about Conservation?

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Form of questioning may be misleading, problems finding age of conservation

25
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What criticisms are there of Rose and Blank?

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Difficult to assess how each stage derives from previous, development beyond adolescence

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