Piaget

Question 1

What are the main characteristics of Piaget’s cognitive development theory?

Answer 1

-child learns thru environment; build cognitive structures

-biological amidst experiences:
actively create knowledge through experience

• less about age: children develop at diff rates
• move through stages in the same order
• object permanence
• stranger anxiety
• biological tendencies: assimilation (take in), accommodation (adjust) & organization (info)

Question 2

What is Sensorimotor Stage? (age, description, developmental tasks)

Answer 2

0-2 years
-learn through senses/actions

Tasks:

• object permanence
• stranger anxiety

Question 3

What are the substages of the sensorimotor Stage?

Answer 3

(0-1 mo) reflexes to behaviors
(1-4 mo) primary reactions: reproduce event
(4-8mo) object-oriented: awareness of objects outside of body

(8-12mo)intentional actions

(12-18mo) intentional trial-and-error exploration

(18-24mo) mental symbols to represent objects/events

Question 4

What is the Preoperational Stage?

Answer 4

2-7 yrs
represent things w/words & images
use intuition (vs. logic)

Tasks:
pretend play (magical / symbolic)
egocentrism
language skills dev

Question 5

What is the concrete operational stage?

Answer 5

7-11 yrs: (no longer egocentric)
logical, concrete (math / analogies)

Tasks:
conservation
math

Question 6

What is the formal operational stage?

Answer 6

12-adulthood
abstract reasoning

Tasks:
abstract logic
mature moral reasoning

Question 7

When do children stop being egocentric?

Answer 7

7 years old

Question 8

What stage and age do children begin to reasoning abstractly ?

Answer 8

12 years old

Formal operational stage