Piaget

Question 1

The organ in your head made up of nerves. It processes information and controls behaviour.

Answer 1

Brain

Question 2

The anterior part of the brain, including the hemispheres and the central brain structures.

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Forebrain

Question 3

The middle section of the brain forming part of the central nervous system.

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Midbrain

Question 4

The lower part of the brain that includes the cerebellum, pons and medulla oblongata.

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Hindbrain

Question 5

Directed towards the front (when used in relation to our biology).

Answer 5

Anterior

Question 6

Directed towards the back (when used in relation to our biology).

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Posterior

Question 7

An area of the brain near the brainstem that controls motor movements (muscle activity).

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Cerebellum

Question 8

Connects the upper brain to the spinal cord and controls automatic responses. It controls involuntary responses such as sneezing and breathing, as well as heart rate and blood pressure.

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Medulla oblongata

Question 9

A response to a stimulus that occurs without someone making a conscious choice. They are automatic, such as reflexes.

Answer 9

Involuntary response

Question 10

Links formed by messages passing from one nerve cell (neuron) to another.

Answer 10

Neural connections

Question 11

sorting objects into an order. Develops during the concrete operational stage.

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Seriation

Question 12

The child knows that quantity, length or number are not related to shape e.g. juice test

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Conservation

Question 13

Ability to take on another’s viewpoint.

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Decentration

Question 14

Children use other objects e.g. toys to represent other things. This develops at the pre-operational stage.

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Symbolic Play

Question 15

Unable to see the world from another’s point of view.

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Egocentric

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The belief that objects can behave as if they were alive.

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Animism

Question 17

Understanding that action can return something to its original state. Develops in the concrete operational stage.

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Reversibility

Question 18

The general principle about what is right and wrong,

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Morality

Question 19

Children play using objects and ideas to represent other objects and ideas.

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Symbolic play

Question 20

Mental representations of the world based on one’s own experiences

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Schema

Question 21

Infants use their senses and movements to get information about the world. at first, they live in the present. They develop object permanence and learn to control their movements.

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Sensorimotor stage

Question 22

Children engage in symbolic play. They think in pictures and use symbols, including some words (the beginning of language development). Children are egocentric and show animism. Later in this stage, they start reasoning and show centration and irreversibility.

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Pre-operational stage

Question 23

Develops around 12 years old and is associated with moral reasoning and deductive reasoning.

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Formal operational stage

Question 24

develops after 7 to 12 and involves the development of abilities to such conservation, reversibility, separation and decentration.

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Concrete operational stage

Question 25

When a child’s schemas can explain all that they experience - a state of mental balance may have resulted from new accommodation.

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Equilibrium

Question 26

Incorporating new experiences into existing schemas.

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Assimilation

Question 27

When a schema has to be changed to deal with a new experience.

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Accommodation

Question 28

An experiment by Piaget and Inhelder which tested egocentrism

Answer 28

Three Mountian Task

Question 29

forebrain, midbrain and hindbrain develop.

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3 - 4 weeks

Question 30

cerebellum starts to develop

Answer 30

6 weeks

Question 31

medulla begins to develop

Answer 31

20 weeks