Piaget'S Cognitive Developmental Theory Flashcards
adaptation
building schemes through direct interaction with the environment
schemes
specific psychological structures that change over time and are organized ways of making sense of experiences
create new schemes or adjust old ones after noticing that our current ways of thinking does not capture the environment completely
accommodation
use our current schemes to interpret the external world
assimilation
implies a steady comfortable condition
cognitive equilibrium
cognitive equilibrium more ___ than ____
assimilation than accommodation
when children have cognitive discomfort
disequilibrium
disequilibrium more ___ than ___
accommodation than assimilation
change schemes through a process that takes place and internally, apart from direct contact with the environment
Organization
Organization
when children form new schemes they rearrange them linking them with other schemes to create a strongly interconnected cognitive system
when do schemes reach equilibrium?
once they become a large network of interconnected systems that can be applied to the physical world
when the sensorimotor development take place
infancy and toddlerhood
how many substages of sensorimotor stage are there
6
first stage of sensorimotor stage
reflective schemes birth-1mont
Second stage of the sensorimotor stage
primary circular reactions 1-4mth
simple motor habits centered around The Infants own body; limited anticipation of events
primary circular reactions
third stage of the sensorimotor stage
secondary circular reactions 4-8mths
actions aimed at repeating interesting effects in the surrounding world; imitation of familiar behaviors
secondary circular reactions
fourth stage of the sensorimotor stage
coordination of secondary circular reactions 8-12
intention or goal directed behavior; ability to find a hidden object in the first location in which it is hidden; improved anticipation of events; imitation of behaviors slightly different from those that the infant usually performs
coordination of secondary circular reactions
fifth stage of the sensorimotor stage
tertiary circular reactions 12-18
exploration of the properties of objects by action on them in new ways; imitation of new behaviors; ability to search in several locations for hidden objects
tertiary circular reactions
six stage of the sensorimotor stage
mental representation 18-24
internal depictions of objects and events as indicated by sudden solutions to problems; invisible displacement; deferred imitation
mental representations
moro reflex
flinging arms wide and bringing them back toward the body
palmer grasp
closing fingers toward palm to hold object
stepping reflex
stepping motions when sole of feet touch hard surface