Winegard 5

Question 1

Piaget’s stages of development?

Answer 1

Sensory-motor stage:
- 0-2 yrs old
- Intelligence in action: child interacts with the environment by manipulating objects.
Pre-operational stage:
- Preconceptual (2-4yrs) (language development occurs)
- Intuitive (4-7yrs) (Child influenced by their perception of environment)
Concrete Operation:
- 7-11 yrs
- Logical Reasoning can only be applied to objects that are real or seen.
Formal Operations:
- 12 and up.
- Individual can logically think about potential events or abstract ideas.

Question 2

First psychologist to study cognitive development.

Answer 2

Jean Piaget:

• Swiz
• Studies of children (not just stupid adults)

Question 3

Seriation

Answer 3

Seriation refers to the ability to sort objects or situations according to any characteristic, such as size, color, shape, or type

Question 4

Transitivity

Answer 4

Transitivity refers to partial order and equivalence relations. E.g.,
whenever A > B and B > C, then also A > C

Question 5

Decentering

Answer 5

Decentering (also known as Decentration) refers to the ability to consider multiple aspects of a situation.E.g., when asked to choose between two lollipops, a child might choose based on how one flavor is better than the other even though the other is the same size and color.

Question 6

Emerging Adulthood

Answer 6

• 18-25
• It is an age of identity explorations

It is an age of instability

It is a self-focused age

It is age of feeling in-between

It is an age of possibilities