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Week Five - Cognitive Development I: Piaget Flashcards

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What is cognition?

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The mental process of acquiring knowledge and understanding

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How is cognition gained?

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Gained through sensing, perceiving and thinking

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What is cognitive development?

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The HOW and WHY of progress in cognition across age.

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What are the 3 assumptions of stage theories?

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  1. DOMAIN-GENERAL DEVELOPMENT: when you improve , you improve across all domains, not just one)
  2. STAGE INVARIANCE: all children go through the same stages in a specific order, no forwards or backward)
  3. UNIVERSAL PATTERNS: stages aren’t dependent on anything else such as culture, they are just what everyone goes through)
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What did Jean Piaget do?

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Observed his own children and considered whether similar patterns were representative of all children

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Piaget considered children to be?

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Active constructor of knowledge as opposed to passive vessels

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What are Piaget’s stages?

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Sensorimotor
Pre-operational
Concrete operational
Formal operational

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What occurs in the Sensorimotor stage?

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0-2 years of age,

  • sensory and motor
  • experience and coordination
  • gradually acquires object permanence
  • imitates others
  • symbolic thought ends infancy
  • distinguish self from outside world
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What occurs in the preoperational stage?

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2-6 years old

  • language and symbolic representation (no mental operations)
  • egocentric world view
  • animism
  • artificialism
  • magical thoughts
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What occurs in the concrete stage?

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7-12 years old

  • solving concrete problems with logic
  • organisation of objects into hierarchies
  • concrete thinking
  • class inclusion
  • conservation
  • classification
  • seriation
  • transitive inference
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What occurs in the formal operational stage?

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12-adulthood

  • systematic solving of real and hypothetical problems using abstract thoughts
  • hypothetico-deductive reasoning
  • propositional reasoning (statements)
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How do we progress through Piaget’s stages?

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direct learning
social transmission
physical maturation

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What is Direct learning?

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Where the child actively responds to new problems using schemas

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What are schemas?

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A schema describes a pattern of thought or behaviour that organises categories of the info and the relationship between them

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What are innate schemas?

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Simple patterns of unlearned reflexes

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What is assimilation?

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Interpreting/responding to a new situation in terms of an existing schema

eg going from boob to bottle with sucking schema

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What is accomodation?

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Changing an existing schema when faced with new information that doesn’t fit

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How do we use social transmission to progress through stages?

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Out thinking is influenced by learning from others via observation and contact

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How does physical maturation help us progress through stages?

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Because there are biologically determined changes in physical and neurological development that lead to cognitive change

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What is object permanence?

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The knowledge that an object still exists even when out of site

21
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What is the A not B error?

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Hiding toy at A, baby searches and finds it at A

Hides at B , baby still searches at A

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Diamonds conclusions on the A not B task?

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Influence on memory over behaviour is not strong enough to hold back their habitual response - like checking your wrist for time when though you don’t’ have a watch on

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Critiques to sensory motor stage

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infants show OP earlier, and memory affects infants performance more than piaget realied

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What is conservation?

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The understanding that the essential properties of things are conserved, despite changes in their outward appearance - not occurring in pre-op stage

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What 3 things explain why children in pre-op stage may fail to conserve?

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Centration: Only focus on a single aspect of the situation

Reversibility (lack of): Can’t see that this transformation could be reversed

Identity: (lack of) awareness that an object is still the same object

CHILD IS MISLEAD BY PERCEPTUAL FEATURES

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What did Piaget underestimate with children’s actual knowledge in regard to conservation?

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The role of pragmatics (unwritten roles of conversation)

First answer must be wrong?
Misunderstanding of question
Pleasing experimenter

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What did the naughty teddy experiment provide?

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Better understanding of conservation - got rid of pragmatic concern

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Preoperational stage children can however?

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Acquire a real understanding of conservation

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Preoperational children do not fully grasp what?

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How the true conventional number system works

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What does true understanding of conservation of number tasks require?

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one-to-one correspondence (counting things only one)
ordinality (saying no. in the correct order)
cardinality ( last no. said = no. you have)

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What thoughts do children in the pre-op stage have that they overcome as thinking becomes more logical?

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Animism: applying the attributes of living things to inanimate objects

Artificialism: believing that naturally occurring events are caused by people

Magical Thought: attributing events you can’t understand to magic/fantasy

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What did Piaget’s clinical method encourage?

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Animistic and artificialism thinking

33
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What is egocentrism?

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Inability to understand that another person’s view or opinion may be different than their own.- preop children cannot do

referenced by the 3 mountain task - choosing the mountain they can see not doll (however, could simply just be too hard of a task - findings show simpler tasks prove ego in preop people)

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What are the 3 hallmarks seen when entering concrete operational stage?

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identity
reversibility
decentration: consider multiple aspects at once

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Explain the differences in conservation tasks in the CO stage?

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Don’t develop the ability to conserve EVERYTHING at once

  • Conservation of number tasks are easier - 6 yo
  • Conservation of volume tasks - 12-12yo

Both individual and cultural differences

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Why are there cultural differences in conservation ability?

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Some cultures have more ability to practice/rehearse (eg scarce water = no chance to play around with it)

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What is class inclusion (COS)?

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Ability to simultaneously consider one thing as a member of one class and its sub-class eg red flowers and total flower

38
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What is classification (COS)?

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Ability to recognise different levels of categories

- ability to reason that one person/object can belong to two categories

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What is seriation?

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Ability to put objects in order along a quantitative dimension eg size, length

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What is transitive inference?

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A is bigger than B, B is bigger than C, is A bigger than C?

  • can provide false positives though due to hearing the word ‘bigger’
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What does propositional reasoning involve?

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Manipulation of abstract thoughts, freed from the concrete thus can be based on factually untrue premises

42
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The transition from concrete to formal stage is?

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A gradual process that takes some years

43
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Negative outcomes of formal operations stage?

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Ability to imagine alternatives
question rules
become idealistic
simple solutions for complex problems (eg war)

44
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What are some positive outcomes that occur in the formal operations stage?

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think critically

understand other better

45
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Development of formal operations depends on?

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Socio-cultural context as much as on assimilation/accommodation

46
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What are the two different ways egocentrism may present in adolescence?

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Imaginary audience: differentiating too little between own thoughts and those of hypothesised audience

Personal fable: differentiating too much on one’s own thoughts, feelings and experiences from those of others

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