Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Development & Vygotsky (Unit 11) Flashcards
- What are the stages of cognitive development? (4)
- Sensorimotor
- Preoperational
- Concrete Operation
- Formal Operation
Child begins to understand that their movements are tied to sensory satisfaction:
Stage 1: Sensorimotor
What age is the Sensorimotor stage?
Birth to age 2
A child begins to understand that objects exist even when hidden:
Object Permenance
Fear or distress that develop when children are confronted by individuals who are unknown to them when their parents are not around:
Stranger Anxiety
Who did more research on Stanger Anxiety?
John Bowlby
Shown a numerically impossible outcome, infants stare longer:
Baby Math
Who created Baby Math?
Karen Wynn
What are the 3 traits of the Sensorimotor Stage?
- Object Permanence
- Stranger Anxiety
- Baby Math
Representing things with words and images but lack logical reasoning:
Stage 2: Preoperational Stage
What age is the Preoperational Stage?
2-6/7 years
Belief that inanimate objects have feelings and humanlike qualities:
Animism
Belief that anything that exists must have been made by a conscious entity:
Artificialism
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:
1-D Thinking
_________ development increases at a quick pace:
Language
Seeing the world only through their perspective:
Egocentrism
The ability to understand the motives and desires of self andothes to infer feelings:
Theory of the Mind (TOTM)
Does not have TOTM, unable to read others’ reactions and facial/body movements, have language difficulties, lack social interaction, play with “odd” objects:
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
Thinking logically about concrete events; grasping concrete analogies and performing arithmetic operations:
Concrete Operational Stage
What age is the Concrete Operational Stage?
7-11/12
Understands changing shape of an object doesn’t mean a change in mass:
2D Thinking
The principle that properties such as mass, volume, and number remain the same despite changes in the forms of objects:
Conservation
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:
Formal Operational Stage
What age is the Formal Operational Stage?
12+