Process of development
Children's organized ways of making sense of the experiences
what is schemes
The age range for this stage
what is birth - 2 years
In pre-operational stage early sensorimotor discoveries are represented by --------- in preschoolers
What is symbols
The age span at which thinking becomes more logical, flexible, and organized
What is 7-11 years old
The age span at which this stage develops
What is 11 years onwards
Two processes that account for changes in schemes
what is adaptation and organization
The substage where children repeat motor actions that produce an outcome
What is substage 2: Primary Circular Reactions
What Piaget thought to be the most flexible means of mental representation
What is language
The ability to complete a series of tasks and then mentally reverse direction to return to the beginning
What is reversibility
The kinds of thinking that emerge at this stage
What is systematic and abstract thinking
Involves building schemes through direct interaction with the environment
what is adaptation
The stage in which coordination of secondary circular reactions develop
What is substage 4
By the end of the second year, children are engaged in -------- play, which becomes increasingly complicated as they grow older
What is sociodramatic play
The ability to pass conservation task is evidence for?
What is operations
What is the systematic reasoning process at this stage comparable to?
What is comparable to adolescent and adult
The activity we adopt when we use our current schemes when we interpret the external world
what is assimilation
The substage in which infants begin to experiment with novel behaviour to explore the world
What is substage 5: Tertiary Circular Reactions
One of the most fundamental deficiencies of pre-operational thinking is
What is egocentrism
Between age 7 and 10 children pass what Piaget called the class conclusion problem. What does that indicate?
What is more aware of classification hierarchies.
During this stage what can adolescents begin to evaluate?
What is the logic and verbal statements without referring to real-world circumstances
The state of cognitive discomfort during rapid cognitive development
what is disequilibrium
Infants "think" by acting on the world with?
What is their eyes, ears, hands, and mouth
The age span at which there is an increase in representational or symbolic activity
What is 2-7 years old
What mental operations work poorly for children in this stage?
What is abstract ideas
In the face of problems, what can adolescents do now?
What is isolate and combine variables to determine which inferences are confirmed once a hypothesis is formulated