Sensorimotor Development
Preoperational
Thought
Concrete
Operational
Organization and Adaptation
Intellectual Development
100
An awareness of cause-and-effect relationships
What is causality
100
The ability to represent objects and events; symbolic function
What is representation
100
An internalized system of actions that is fully reversible
What are intellectual (logical) operations
100
Cognitive or mental structures by which individuals intellectually adapt to and organize the environment
What are Schemata
100
Knowledge of the physical properties of objects, acquired by manipulations on that object
What is Physical Knowledge
200
An awareness of the permanence of objects
What is object concept
200
Following a line of reasoning back to where it started
What is reversibility
200
Being aware of and understanding the relationship between successive steps in reasoning
What is transformation
200
A cognitive process by which a person integrates new matter into existing schemata or patterns of behavior
What is Assimilation
200
Knowledge constructed from thinking about experiences with objects or events, acquired by manipulations on an object
What is Logical-Mathematical Knowledge
300
Infants' sucking, grasping, crying, and movement of the arms, trunk, and head
What are reflexes
300
Conceptualization that the amount of a matter does not change with the change of an irrelevant dimension
What is conservation
300
The ability to mentally arrange a set of elements accurately along a certain dimension
What is seriation
300
The creation of new schemata or the modification of old schemata
What is Accommodation
300
Knowledge about the social or cultural norms of your environment, acquired by interactions with people
What is Social Knowledge
400
Seeing the world only from his or her own point of view
What is egocentrism
400
A game of pretending; an activity not found in sensorimotor development
What is symbolic play
400
Mentally grouping objects according to similarities
What is classification
400
A state of imbalance between assimilation and accommodation
What is Disequilibrium
400
What children know about; observable behaviors - sensorimotor and conceptual - that reflect intellectual activity
What is content
500
The feelings and emotions that develop in children over time
What is affect
500
Fixing attention on a limited perceptual aspect of a stimulus
What is centration
500
Being able to make one's own moral evaluations, performing freely decided acts of will and exhibiting moral feelings
What is autonomy
500
Constant construction of new and improved cognitive machinery (schemata)
What is accommodation and assimilation
500
Characteristics of intellectual activity - assimilation and accommodation - that are stable and continual throughout cognitive development
What is Function
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