Theoretical Basis of Personality and Behavior Flashcards

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He is an austrian neurologist

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Sigmund Freud

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The father of Psychoanalysis

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Sigmund Freud

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Means taking cure

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Psychoanalysis

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Is an inability to adapt and a tendency to experience excessive negative or obsessive thoughts and behaviors

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Neurosis

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Is most likely stress- or anxiety- related and is related to unresolved or repressed conflicts in earlier years of life

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Neurosis

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He believed that neurosis can be cured by making their unconscious conscious

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Freud

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Memories within awareness

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Conscious Level

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Controlled by the Ego

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Conscious Level

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Memories not presently within awareness but can be easily recalled

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Preconscious Level

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“Pleasure Principle”

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Id

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Present at birth

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Id

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Locus of instinctual drives

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Id

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Seeks instant gratification and has no regard for rules or social conventions

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Id

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Contains Eros and Thanatos

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Id

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15
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means life instinct

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Eros

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Means death instinct

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Thanatos

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Begins to develop between 4 and 6 months

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Ego

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Experiences the reality of the external world, adapts and responds to it

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Ego

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Develops between 3 and 6 years old

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Superego

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Internalizes the values and morals set forth by primary caregivers

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Superego

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Reality Principle

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Ego

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Perfection Principle

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Superego

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Methods of attempting to protect the self and cope with basic drives or emotionally painful thoughts, feelings or events

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Ego defense mechanisms

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May be consciously or unconsciously carried out

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Ego defense mechanisms

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Unconscious refusal to admit an unacceptable idea or behavior

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Denial

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Unconscious and involuntary forgetting of painful ideas, events, and conflicts

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Repression

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Conscious exclusion from awareness anxiety- producing feelings, ideas, and situations

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Suppression

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Conscious or unconscious attempts to make or prove that one’s feelings or behaviors are justifiable

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Rationalization

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Consciously or unconsciously using only logical explanations without feelings or an affective component

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Intellectualization

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The unconscious separation of painful feelings and emotions from an unacceptable idea, situation, or object

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Dissociation

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Conscious or unconscious attempt to model oneself after a respected person

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Identification

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Unconsciously incorporating values and attitudes of others as if they were your own

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Introjection

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consciously covering up for a weakness by overemphasizing or making up a desirable trait

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Compensation

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Consciously or unconsciously channeling instinctual drives into acceptable activities

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Sublimation

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A conscious behavior that is the exact opposite of an unconscious feeling

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Reaction Formation

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Consciously doing something to counteract or make up for a transgression or wrongdoing

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Undoing

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Unconsciously discharging pent up feelings to a less threatening object

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Displacement

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Unconsciously (or consciously) blaming someone else for one’s difficulties or placing one’s unethical desires on someone else

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Projection

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39
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The unconscious expression of intrapsychic conflict symbolically through physical symptoms

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Conversion

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40
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Unconscious return to an earlier and more comfortable developmental level

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Regression

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41
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A child’s attraction to the opposite sex parent and an associated sense of rivalry with same sex parent

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Oedipus Complex

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42
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a fear of literal and figurative emasculation

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castration anxiety

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43
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feeling of girl’s resentment to mother for “castrating” her

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penis envy

44
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what are the stages of psychosexual development

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Oral
Anal
Phallic
Latency
Genital

45
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It’s pleasure site is mouth

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Oral

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Stages of psychosexual development where the major task/conflict is weaning

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Oral

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Stages of Psychosexual Development wherein the major task/conflict is Toilet training

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Anal

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Pleasure site is Anus and surrounding areas

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Anal

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Pleasure site is genitalia (Penis/Clitoris)

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Phallic

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Stages of Psychosocial Development wherein the major task/conflict is to identify with opposite-sex parent

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Phallic

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It’s major task/conflict is socialization

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Latency

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It’s major task/conflict is sexual maturity and satisfactory relationships with the opposite sex

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Genital

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Age of oral stage

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Birth to 18 months

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Anal stage age

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18 months to 3 years

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Phallic stage age

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3-6 years

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Latency Age

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6-12 years

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Genital Age

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12 years and up

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Dependency or aggression; Problems with drinking, smoking, eating, nail biting

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Oral

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messy, wasteful, destructive

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Anal-expulsive

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orderly, rigid; obsessive

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Anal-retentive

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Sexual deviances or confused sexual identity

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Phallic

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Difficulty identifying with others and in developing social skills, leading to a sense of inadequacy and inferiority

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Latency

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-Derailed emotional and financial independence

  • Impaired personal identity and future goals
  • Disrupted ability to form satisfying intimate relationships
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Genital

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Germal-American psychologist and psychoanalyst

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Erik Erikson (1902- 1994)

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What is the virtue when viewing the world as safe and reliable; relationships as nurturing, stable, and dependable

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Hope

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What is the value when achieving a sense of control and free will

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Will

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What is the value when beginning development of a conscience, learning to manage conflict and anxiety

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Purpose

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What is the virtue about emerging confidence in own abilities; taking pleasure in accomplishments

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Competence

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Virtue that formulates a sense of belonging

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Fidelity

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Virtue about forming adult, loving relationships and meaningful attachments to others

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Love

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What is the virtue of being creative and productive, establishing the next generation

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Care

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What is the virtue of accepting responsibility for one’s self and life

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Wisdom

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Trust vs. mistrust

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Infant

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Autonomy vs. shame and doubt

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(Toddler)

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Initiative vs. guilt

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(preschool)

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Industry vs. inferiority

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school age

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Identity vs. role confusion

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adolescence

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intimacy vs. isolation

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young adult

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Generavity vs. stagnation

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middle adult

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ego integrity vs. despair

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(maturity)

81
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Swiss psychologist who focused on the intellectual development of children

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Jean Piaget (1896-1980)

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Who developed the theory of cognitive development?

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Jean piget

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The ability to adapt to the environment through an equilibration process

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Intelligence

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involves the child’s increasing his or her adaptation to the environment in a dynamic equilibrium between using his/her existing ideas about the world and changing those ideas in response to his/ her experiences

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Cognitive Development

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-Concept or category about the world

-Mental representation of a set of ideas or actions which go together

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Schema

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-The tendency to interpret new experiences in terms of existing schemas

-Taking in information into previously existing schemas

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Assimilation

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This results from the inability to use existing schema to understand new information to make sense of objects and concepts

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Disequilibration

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Changes in schemas to incorporate information from experiences

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Accommodation

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Describes the cognitive balancing process of new information with old knowledge

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Equilibration

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Birth to 2 years old

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Sensorimotor

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2 to 7 years old

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Preoperational

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7 to 11 years old

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Concrete Operational

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> 11 years old

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Formal Operational

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What are the stages of Cognitive Development

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  1. Sensorimotor Stage
  2. Preoperational Stage
  3. Concrete Operational Stage
  4. Formal Operational Stage
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The child understands the word in terms of actions, not words

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Sensorimotor

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The child is unable to use operations to solve problems and does not understand concepts such as reversibility

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Preoperational

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During this period the child can only see problems from one perspective, a phenomenon referred to as

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Egocentrism

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Able to solve logical problems but only in the present

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Concrete Operational

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Arranging items along a quantitative dimension, such as length or weight, in a methodical way

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Seriation

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Ability to arrange objects into a variety of classes and subclasses

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Classification

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Ability to appreciate that a change in shape does not necessarily mean a change in size

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Conservation

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The child learns that some things that have been changed can be returned to their original state

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Reversibility

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Concrete operational children no longer focus on only one dimension of any object and instead consider the changes in other dimensions too

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Decentration

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Understanding that objects have qualities that do not change even if the object is altered in some way

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Identity

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Being able to understand how objects are related to one another; using previous knowledge to determine the missing piece, using basic logic

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Transitivity