Piaget Terms

Question 1

schema

Answer 1

concepts or mental frameworks that organize and interpret information

Question 2

assimilation

Answer 2

interpreting your new experiences in terms of your existing schemas

Question 3

accomodation

Answer 3

adapting your current schemas to incorporate new information

Question 4

sensorimotor stage

Answer 4

(from about birth to age 2) during which infants learn about the world through their sensory impressions and motor activities

Question 5

object permanence

Answer 5

sensorimotor stage- the awareness that things continue to exist even when you cannot see or hear them

Question 6

seperation anxiety

Answer 6

child cries when parent is no longer present

Question 7

What behaviors can a child do in the sensorimotor stage?

Answer 7

-acts on the environment by knocking down blocks, making sounds, finding toes
-child sees an object and reaches for it
-by one year of age, a child realizes that objects still exist although the object is no longer seen
-child cries when the parent is no longer present

Question 8

preoperational stage

Answer 8

(from about age 2 to 6 or 7) during which a child learns to use language but cannot yet think logically

Question 9

egocentric

Answer 9

preoperational stage- the inability to think from another person’s point of view

Question 10

animism

Answer 10

preoperational stage- thinks all objects have life

Question 11

artificialism

Answer 11

preoperational stage- child thinks humans created everything

Question 12

What behaviors can a child do in the preoperational stage?

Answer 12

-child starts to represent the world internally through language
-child thinks all objects have life
-child uses inaccurate logic by assuming that the characteristics of a specific idea can be applied to a similar idea
-child classifies objects by only one trait; typically, it is by color

Question 13

transductive logic

Answer 13

preoperational stage- child uses inaccurate logic by assuming that the characteristics of a specific idea can be applied to a similar idea. For example, birds and airplanes fly; therefore, birds must be airplanes.

Question 14

concrete operational stage

Answer 14

(from ages 6 or 7 to 11) during which children gain the mental skills that let them think logically about concrete events

Question 15

conservation

Answer 15

concrete- the principle that properties such as mass, volume, and number remain the same despite changes in the form of objects

Question 16

reversibility

Answer 16

concrete-understands and performs operations that go in the other direction

Question 17

inductive logic

Answer 17

concrete- child draws conclusions from a specific number of facts

Question 18

What behaviors can a child do in the concrete operational stage?

Answer 18

-conservation
-reversibility, addition and subtraction
-inductive logic
-child classifies objects into larger classes of objects
-child classifies by a number of characteristics

Question 19

Formal operational stage

Answer 19

(age 12+) during which people begin to think logically about abstract concepts and form strategies about things they may not have experienced.

Question 20

deductive logic

Answer 20

formal- child dervies specific facts from a generalization