Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Development & Vygotsky (Unit 11)

Question 1

1. What are the stages of cognitive development? (4)

Answer 1

1. Sensorimotor
2. Preoperational
3. Concrete Operation
4. Formal Operation

Question 2

Child begins to understand that their movements are tied to sensory satisfaction:

Answer 2

Stage 1: Sensorimotor

Question 3

What age is the Sensorimotor stage?

Answer 3

Birth to age 2

Question 4

A child begins to understand that objects exist even when hidden:

Answer 4

Object Permenance

Question 5

Fear or distress that develop when children are confronted by individuals who are unknown to them when their parents are not around:

Answer 5

Stranger Anxiety

Question 6

Who did more research on Stanger Anxiety?

Answer 6

John Bowlby

Question 7

Shown a numerically impossible outcome, infants stare longer:

Answer 7

Baby Math

Question 8

Who created Baby Math?

Answer 8

Karen Wynn

Question 9

What are the 3 traits of the Sensorimotor Stage?

Answer 9

1. Object Permanence
2. Stranger Anxiety
3. Baby Math

Question 10

Representing things with words and images but lack logical reasoning:

Answer 10

Stage 2: Preoperational Stage

Question 11

What age is the Preoperational Stage?

Answer 11

2-6/7 years

Question 12

Belief that inanimate objects have feelings and humanlike qualities:

Answer 12

Animism

Question 13

Belief that anything that exists must have been made by a conscious entity:

Answer 13

Artificialism

Question 14

Feels cheated if 2 scoops of ice cream are in a large bowl when sibling has 2 scoops in a small bowl. Looks like the other got more:

Answer 14

1-D Thinking

Question 15

_________ development increases at a quick pace:

Answer 15

Language

Question 16

Seeing the world only through their perspective:

Answer 16

Egocentrism

Question 17

The ability to understand the motives and desires of self andothes to infer feelings:

Answer 17

Theory of the Mind (TOTM)

Question 18

Does not have TOTM, unable to read others’ reactions and facial/body movements, have language difficulties, lack social interaction, play with “odd” objects:

Answer 18

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

Question 19

Thinking logically about concrete events; grasping concrete analogies and performing arithmetic operations:

Answer 19

Concrete Operational Stage

Question 20

What age is the Concrete Operational Stage?

Answer 20

7-11/12

Question 21

Understands changing shape of an object doesn’t mean a change in mass:

Answer 21

2D Thinking

Question 22

The principle that properties such as mass, volume, and number remain the same despite changes in the forms of objects:

Answer 22

Conservation

Question 23

Ability to think abstractly and think about ideas that do not physically exist in the world. Understand concepts of virtue, honesty, and sarcasm. Can reason through hypothetical situations. Strategy and planning become possible:

Answer 23

Formal Operational Stage

Question 24

What age is the Formal Operational Stage?

Answer 24

12+

Question 25

What does the acronym Students of Psychology Can Fly stand for?

Answer 25

Sensorimotor, Preoperational, Concrete Operational, Formal Operational

Question 26

___ _________ Cultural and Biosocial Deelopment:

Answer 26

Lev Vygotsky’s

Question 27

Vygotsky suggests that the _____ and ___ environment allows children to progress through development stages more quickly/slowly, depending on stimuli in that environment:

Answer 27

Social; Cultural

Question 28

Children from _______ environments and more social interactions moved through Piaget’s stages faster:

Answer 28

Enriched

Question 29

Divide between what child know/can do alone and what they can do with help:

Answer 29

Zone of Proximal Development

Question 30

Who found the Zone of Proximal Development?

Answer 30

Vygotsky