Piaget’s Cognitive Development
This stage in Piaget’s theory, from birth to about 2 years, is characterized by learning through sensory experiences and motor actions.
What is the Sensorimotor Stage?
This developmental period is when separation anxiety, distress upon caregiver separation, first appears.
What is infancy?
This reflex, present at birth, causes a baby to turn its head toward a touch on the cheek.
What is the Rooting Reflex?
This stage of development is when children begin showing hand preference, although it’s fully established later.
What is the Preschool Stage?
This term denotes the cognitive awareness that physical quantities remain constant despite changes in shape or appearance.
What is Conservation?
This psychosocial stage of Erikson’s theory focuses on identity formation and is associated with adolescence.
What is Identity vs. Role Confusion?
Turning an infant’s head to one side causes the limbs on that side to extend while the opposite limbs flex.
What is the Asymmetrical Tonic Neck Reflex (ATNR)?
This stage is associated with the ability to copy a circle and square.
What is the Preschool Stage?
This stage of Piaget’s theory, occurring roughly between ages 7 and 11, is characterized by logical thinking about concrete events.
What is the Concrete Operational Stage?
Adolescents may undervalue future rewards compared to immediate gratification, which is related to decision-making in this developmental period.
What is Temporal Discounting?
This handwriting grasp pattern is reflected by individualized movements of the digits with stability from the ulnar side of the hand.
What is the Dynamic Tripod Grasp Pattern?
Visual-perceptual skills such as depth perception, perception of movement, and size constancy typically mature during this period.
What are the School-Age Years?
In the pre-operational period, this term reflects the “world revolves around me” thinking and limited ability to see another’s perspective.
What is Egocentrism?
Eating disorders like anorexia nervosa and bulimia most often have their onset during this developmental period.
What is Adolescence?
This perceptual skill, which allows children to distinguish objects from their background, matures around age 8.
What is Figure-Ground Perception?
This area of the cortex, responsible for planning and reasoning, is not fully mature in adolescents, explaining increased high-risk behaviors.
What is the Prefrontal Cortex?
This developmental achievement, appearing around 8–12 months, involves understanding that objects continue to exist even when out of sight.
What is Object Permanence?
According to Erikson, this stage during middle childhood focuses on developing competence and confidence.
What is Industry vs. Inferiority?
The ability to anticipate the timing of moving objects, important for sports and coordination, improves during this developmental period. (2 part question**)
What is Coincidence-Anticipation Timing / Middle Childhood?
Concepts like body schema and coincidence-anticipation timing are associated with this developmental period.
What is Middle Childhood?