PSY Unit 3 Learning Objectives

Question 1

Thinking that is symbolic but not logical. Example: make-believe phone, but it’s another object like a brick or toy phone.

Answer 1

Symbolic thought.

Question 2

Relating inanimate objects to animated ones. Blurring the lines between living and nonliving things.Example: Clouds are sad! (it’s raining).

Answer 2

Animism

Question 3

Kids only able to focus on one aspect of something at a time is called?

Answer 3

Centration

Question 4

When kids think the way something looks is the answer to what it is. This is one limitation to thought in preoperational thought and is known as_______ ______

Answer 4

Focus on Appearance

Question 5

Things in one state have always been in that state, and they will remain there. Example: Grandma has always been old.

Answer 5

Static Reasoning

Question 6

Not understanding that something could be reversed or undone is known as?

Answer 6

Irreversibility