Piaget Flashcards
sensorimotor
birth-2 years
child develops schemes primarily through sense and motor activities.
Preoperational
2-7 years
Child can think symbolically; holds egocentric view of the world.
Concrete Operational
7-11 years
Child becomes able to manipulate logical relationships among concepts but only by generalizing from concrete experiences.
equilibration
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a mechanism that Piaget proposed to explain how children shift from one stage to the next.
Assimilation
1st
The process in which people understand an experience in terms of their current stage of cognitive development and way of thinking.
EX: Family has a car all vehicles are known as cars even trucks.
Accomodation
the process that changes existing ways of thinking in response to encounters with new stimuli or event.
EX: Learning that motorcycles and trucks are not cars.
Schemes
Piagets theory, actions or mental representation that organize or acknowledge.
Piaget’s
six substages of sensorimotor development
- Simple reflex
- first habits and primary circular reactions
- secondary circular reactions
- coordination of secondary circular reactions
- Tertiary circular reactions, novelty, and curiosity
- Internationalization of schemes.
- Simple Reflex
Birth to 1 month
Coordination of sensation and action through reflexive behavior.
Rooting and sucking
- First habits and primary circular reactions
1 to 4 months
coordination and two types of schemes: habits (reflex), main focus still on infants body.
(repeat body sensation first experienced by chance) “Sucking Thumb”
- Secondary Circular reaction
4 to 8 months
more object oriented, repeat actions that bring up pleasure or interest.
(cooing to make person stay near)
- Coordination of secondary circular reactions
8 to 12 months
coordiantaion of vision and touch, hand eye coordination, schemes are intentional.
(manipulate a stick to bring a toy closer.)
- tertiary circular reactions novelty and curiosity
12 to 18 months
infants intrigued by many properties and things they can make happen.
(a block can be made to fall or spin)
- Internalization of schemes
18 to 24 months
Infants develop the ability to us primitive symbols and for enduring mental representations.
(An infant who has never thrown a temper tantrum before sees a playmate tantrum and retains the memory)
object permanence
7 to 8 months
you cannot see it but know it still exists.
