Piaget's Approach to cognitive development Flashcards

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What is Genetic epistemology?

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The development of Knowledge

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What evidence did piaget use to conclude that stages of development exist?

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“We have seen that there exist structures which belong only to the subject, that they are built, and that this is a step-by-step process.”

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What did Piaget say about children’s logical thought between stages?

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That it is qualitatively different.

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What mechanisms are involved?

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  • Children’s knowledge is organised into cognitive structures, or ‘schemas’
  • Early schemes involve internalised action (e.g., sucking, grasping) -organised behavioural response to objects
  • Later schemes can involve intellectual activit (e.g., abstract reasoning)
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What is the the technical name for the infancy stage (0-2 years)?

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Sensorimotor stage

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What are the key features of the Sensorimotor stage?

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  1. Move from reflexes to reflecting
  • newborn reflexes
  • primary circular reaction
  • secondary circular reactions
  • coordination of secondary
  • circular reactions
  • tertiary circular reactions
  • mental representation
  1. Object permanence
    * Recognition that objects exist in the absence of any sensory perception
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What is the Technical name for the ‘Early to middle childhood’ stage (2-7 years)

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Preoperational stage

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What are the key features of the preoperational stage?

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  • Increase in mental representations
  • Difficulty in manipulation of mental representations (i.e. operations)
  • Conservation
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Exaplain the purpose of Piaget’s Mountain test?

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To test for egocentrism

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What is the technical name for the Middle childhood/pre-adolescence stage (7-11 years)?

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Concrete operational stage

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What are the key features of the Concrete operations stage?

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  1. Applying operations to concrete objects
  • Classification can take place along multiple dimensions
  • Understanding of compensation, reversibility etc.
  • BUT physical presence of objects often still needed in order for operations to be applied to them “Edith is lighter than Suzanne and Edith is darker than Lily; which is the darkest of the three?” (Piaget, 1958)
  1. Limited ability to reason with abstract representations
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What is the technical name for the Adolescence to adulhood stage?

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Formal Operations stage

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What are the key features of the Formal operations stage?

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  1. Applying logical operations to abstract, intangible entities
  • dissociation of truth from logic
  • systematic hypothesis-testing
  • strategic planning
  • appreciation of multiple alternatives

_–> Problem-solving _

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