Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Dev. v2

Question 1

• It is the first stage corresponds from birth to infancy
• when a child who is initially reflexive in grasping, sucking and reaching becomes more organized in his movement and activity.
• focuses on the prominence of the sense and muscle movement through which the infant comes to learn about himself and the world

Answer 1

Sensori-motor Stage

Question 2

This is the ability of the child to know that an object still exists even when out of sight. This ability is attained in the sensory motor stage

Answer 2

Object Permanence

Question 3

• covers from about two to seven years old, roughly corresponding to the preschool years
• the child can now make mental
  representations and is able to pretend, the child is
  now ever closer to the use of symbols.

Answer 3

Pre- Operational Stage

Question 4

Pre- Operational Stage:
- This is the ability to represent objects and events. A symbol is a thing that represents something else.

Answer 4

Symbolic Function

Question 5

Pre- Operational Stage:
- This is the tendency of the child to only see his point of view and to assume that everyone also has his same point of view. The child cannot take perspective for others.

Answer 5

Egocentrism

Question 6

Pre- Operational Stage:
- This refers to the tendency of the child to only focus on one aspect of a thing or event and exclude other aspects.

Answer 6

Centration

Question 7

Pre- Operational Stage:
- Pre-operational children still have the inability to reverse their thinking. They can understand that 2+3 is 5, but cannot understand that 5-3 is 2.

Answer 7

Irreversibility

Question 8

Pre- Operational Stage:
- This is the tendency of children to attribute humanlike traits or characteristics to inanimate objects. When at night, the child is asked, where the sun is, she will reply, “Mr. Sun is asleep.”

Answer 8

Animism

Question 9

Pre- Operational Stage:
- This refers to the pre-operational child’s type of reasoning that is neither inductive nor deductive. Reasoning appears to be from particular to particular i.e., if A causes B, then B causes A.

Answer 9

Transductive Reasoning

Question 10

• This stage is characterized by the ability of the child
  to think logically but only in terms of concrete objects.
• This covers approximately the ages between 8-11
  years or the elementary school years

Answer 10

Concrete-Operational Stage

Question 11

Concrete-Operational Stage:
- This refers to the ability of the child to perceive the different features of objects and situations. No longer is the child focused or limited to one aspect or dimension. This allows the child to be more logical when dealing with concrete objects and situations

Answer 11

Decentering

Question 12

Concrete-Operational Stage:
- During the stage of concrete operations, the child can now follow that certain operations can be done in reverse.

Answer 12

Reversibility

Question 13

Concrete-Operational Stage:
- This is the ability to know that certain properties of objects like number, mass, volume, or area do not change even if there is a change in appearance

Answer 13

Conservation

Question 14

Concrete-Operational Stage:
- This refers to the ability to order or arrange things in a series based on one dimension such as weight, volume, or size.

Answer 14

Seriation

Question 15

In the final stage of formal operations covering ages between 12 and 15 years, thinking becomes more
logical. They can now solve abstract problems and can hypothesize.

Answer 15

Formal Operational Stage

Question 16

Formal Operational Stage:
- This is the ability to come up with different hypothesis about a problem and to gather and weigh data in order to make a final decision or judgment.
- This can be done in the absence of concrete objects. The individuals can now deal with “What if” questions.

Answer 16

Hypothetical Reasoning

Question 17

Formal Operational Stage:
- This is the ability to perceive the relationship in one instance and then use that relationship to narrow down possible answers in another similar situation or problem.
- UK in Europe, Philippines in Asia (analogy paree)

Answer 17

Analogical Reasoning

Question 18

Formal Operational Stage:
- This is the ability to think logically by applying a general rule to a particular instance or situation.

Answer 18

Deductive Reasoning