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Piaget's stages of cognitive development Flashcards

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Described by Piaget as the basic building block or unit of intelligent behaviour

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Schema

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The process described by Piaget of fitting schemas into environmental information

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Adaptation

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As described by Piaget, where new information is incorporated into an existing schema without restructuring the schema

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Assimilation

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As described by Piaget, where new information is added to an existing schema which requires the schema to be restructured

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Accommodation

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As described by Piaget, this occurs when all information properly fits into existing schemas either through assimilation or accommodation

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Equilibrium

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First stage of Piaget’s cognitive development

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Sensorimotor

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Second stage of Piaget’s cognitive development

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Preoperational

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Third stage of Piaget’s cognitive development

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Concrete operational

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Fourth stage of Piaget’s cognitive development

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Formal operational

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Average age at first stage of Piaget’s cognitive development

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0-2 years

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Average age at second stage of Piaget’s cognitive development

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2-7 years

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Average age at third stage of Piaget’s cognitive development

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7-11 years

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Average age at fourth stage of Piaget’s cognitive development

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11 years to adolescence

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Characteristics of the sensorimotor stage of cognitive development at birth to 2 months

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Inborn reflexes used to interact with the external world e.g. suckling, grasping

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Characteristics of the sensorimotor stage of cognitive development at 2-5 months

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Primary circular reactions
Coordinated activity of own body e.g. sucking thumb
Subjective reality - does not seek stimuli outwith field of view

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Definition of a circular reaction

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A behaviour that produces an event that leads to repetition of the behaviour

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A circular reaction which involves only the infant’s own body

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Primary circular reaction

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A circular reaction that involves the infant’s body but also external objects e.g. shaking a rattle

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Secondary circular reaction

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Circular reaction that experiments with the different effects the same behaviour can have e.g. rolling a ball and then rolling a block

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Tertiary circular reaction

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Characteristics of the sensorimotor stage of cognitive development at 5-9 months

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Secondary circular reactions

Beginning to act purposefully to change the environment

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Characteristics of the sensorimotor stage of cognitive development at 9-12 months

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Plays peek-a-boo
Beginning to grasp object permanence
Beginning to understand that objects apart from themselves exist

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Characteristics of the sensorimotor stage of cognitive development at 12-18 months

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Tertiary circular reactions

Seeking out new behaviours

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Characteristics of the sensorimotor stage of cognitive development at 18-24 months

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Symbolic thought
Representational play e.g. uses a cup and pretends it is a hat
Signs of reasoning e.g. uses one toy to reach another
Achieves object permanence

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Type of magical thinking children display at the preoperational stage of cognitive development where events that occur together are thought to cause one another

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Phenomenalistic causality

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The ability that emerges during the preoperational stage of cognitive development where children are able to represent something with some kind of signifier

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Semiotic function

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Characteristic during the preoperational phase of cognitive development where objects are referred to by their function rather than by their appearance

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Functional attribution

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Characteristic during the preoperational phase of cognitive development where children treat inanimate objects as living things

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Animism

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Characteristic during the preoperational phase of cognitive development where children reasons on a case by case basis ignoring well-established facts they don’t yet know e.g. thinking pizza is always triangular because they have only seen triangular slices

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Transductive reasoning

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Faulty thinking displayed by children at the preoperational stage of cognitive development where they think two things are the same because they share a characteristic e.g. butterflies and birds are the same thing because they both have wings

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Von Domarus Law

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Characteristic during the preoperational phase of cognitive development where children are unable to categorise or sort objects based on an aspect of their appearance

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Lack of seriation

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Characteristic during the preoperational phase of cognitive development where children are unable to perceive that a quantity of something is unchanged if it is presented in a different way e.g. not understanding that 500ml of water in a tall thin glass is the same volume in a short thick glass

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Lack of conservation

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Characteristic during the preoperational phase of cognitive development where children are only able to see the world from a single point of view

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Egocentrism

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Characteristic during the preoperational phase of cognitive development where children link objects and events on the basis of features in common e.g. linking that a red ball and a red cube are similar in some way

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Syncretic thought

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Order at which children develop conservation of different properties during the concrete operation stage of cognitive development

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Liquid
Length
Count
Weight
Volume
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Ability gained at the concrete operational stage of cognitive development where children are able to recognise that things can change and then change back without loss of the original material e.g. water changing to ice and back again

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Reversibility

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The ability gained at the concrete operational stage of cognitive development where children are able to combine known statements to reach a logical conclusion e.g. all ocean water is salty, the water at the beach is salty, therefore the water at the beach must be ocean water

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Syllogistic reasoning

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Ability gained at the concrete operational stage of cognitive development where children are able to see things from multiple points of view - replaces egocentricity

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Operational thought

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Characteristics of children at the formal operational stage of cognitive development

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Ability to think logically and abstractly
Ability to test hypotheses against reality
Ability to grasp the concept of probabilities

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Task used in Piaget’s sensorimotor stage to investigate a child’s ability to understand object permanence

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Hiding objects

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Task used in Piaget’s pre-operational stage used to illustrate ego-centricity

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Mountain task

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Task used in Piaget’s formal operational stage used to illustrate the ability to consider multiple variables in making a hypothesis

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Pendulum task

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