piaget Flashcards
1
Q
sensorimotor
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0-2 years
object permanence
-retains images of objects
-develops primitive logic in manipulating objects
-begins intentional acts
-play is imitative
-signals meaning –> infant invests meaning in event (i.e. babysitter arriving meaning mom leaves)
-symbol meaning (language) begins in last part
2
Q
preoperational
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2-7 years
progress from concrete to abstract thinking
can comprehend past, present, future
night terrors
acquires words and symbols
magical thinking (linking of non related events or symbols)
thinking is not generalized
thinking is concrete, irreversible, egocentric
cannot see another point of view
thinking is centered on one detail or event
-imaginary friends often emerge
3
Q
concrete operations
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7-11 years beginnings of abstract thought plays games with rules cause and effect relationship understood logical implications are understood thinking is independent of experience thinking is reversible rules of logic are developed
4
Q
formal operations
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11 - maturity higher level of abstraction planning for future thinks hypothetically assumes adult roles and responsibilities
