Piaget's Theory of Intellectual Development AO3 Flashcards
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What makes up Piaget’s Stages of Intellectual Developement?
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- sensorimotor stage
- pre-opertional stage
- concrete operational stage
- formal operational stage
2
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Describe the Sensorimotor Stage?
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- occurs at ages 0-2
- child learns to experience the 5 senses through trial and error
- they develope object perminance
3
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What is object perminance?
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the idea that even when not in sight, objects still exist
4
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How is a child’s egocentric viewpoint assessed?
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using the Three Mountains Task
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Describe the Three Mountains Task.
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- done by Piaget and Inhelder
- done on children in the pre-operational stage of development
- they were shown 3 mountains with different things on top (cross, house or snow)
- a doll was sat in different positions around the model
- the child was then asked to say what the doll could see but the children only said what they could see as they only understand their own point of view
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What is egocentrism?
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the tendency to view the world from your own point of view-
7
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Describe the Pre-operational Stage?
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- from ages 2-7
- child learns to speak
- they develope egocentrism and centration
- is an intuitive age
8
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What is centration?
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the idea that children focus on certain details of a task and struggle to see it as a whole
9
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Describe the Concrete Operational Stage.
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- from ages 7-11
- they understand conservation of volume
- no longer egocentric therefore they understand the uniqueness of thoughts and feeling
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