Sensorimotor
Knowledge an object exists even if it can't be seen or heard
Object permanance
Age range for preoperational
2-7 years
Age range for concrete operatonal
7-11 years
Age range for formal operational
12+ years
Immediate environment
Microsystem
Form of distress children experience when exposed to new people
Stranger anxiety
Ability to use words, images, and symbols
Symbolic thinking
Understanding numbers can change and return to original state
Mathematical transformations
Imaginary situation based on proved or assumed facts
Hypothetical Thinking
Connections
Mesosystem
Repetition of an action involving an external object
Circular Reaction
Can't view a situation from any other way but their own
Egocentrism
Can see multiple solutions to a problem
Divergent thinking
Using generalized principle to predict future outcome
Deductive reasoning
Exosystem
Indirect environment
Age range for sensorimotor stage
0-2 years
All animals/objects have thoughts + feelings
Animalism
Understanding objects can fit into multiple categories
Multiple classification
Using specific principle to predict future outcome
Inductive reasoning
Social + cultural values
Macrosystem
Units of knowledge about objects, events and concepts
Schemas
Belief that anything that exists must have been made by a conscious entity
Artifacialism
Dual meaning of words
Type of thinking you gain in this stage
Abstract thinking
Changes over time
Chronosystem