Piaget Basics
This is Piaget’s term for mental frameworks used to organize information.
What are schemas?
The stage where object permanence develops.
What is the sensorimotor stage?
Piaget focused on the physical environment, while Vygotsky focused on this one.
What is social environment?
This is the emotional bond between infant and caregiver.
What is attachment?
This parenting style is strict and expects obedience.
What is authoritarian?
Calling all four-legged animals “dog” is an example of this process.
What is assimilation?
The stage where children struggle with conservation.
What is the preoperational stage?
This is the term for support given to help learning.
What is scaffolding?
This research study observed children in a “Strange Situation.”
What is Ainsworth's study?
This parenting style has few rules and high freedom
What is permissive/passive?
Changing your understanding after learning a zebra is not a horse is this process.
What is accommodation?
The stage where logical thinking about real objects develops.
What is the concrete operational stage?
This is the gap between what a child can do alone vs. with help.
What is the zone of proximal development?
This attachment type shows distress but is easily soothed.
What is secure attachment?
This parenting style is both demanding and responsive.
What is authoritative?
Piaget believed children think differently from adults in this key way.
What is thinking in qualitatively different ways?
The stage where abstract and hypothetical thinking begins.
What is the formal operational stage?
Vygotsky believed cognitive development is strongly influenced by this.
What is language/social interaction?
This attachment type ignores or avoids the caregiver.
What is avoidant attachment?
Children with the highest self-esteem are most often raised by this style.
What is authoritative parenting?
This is Piaget’s core idea about how we make sense of experiences.
What is the process of organizing and adapting schemas?
This concept explains why young children cannot see another person’s perspective.
What is egocentrism?
This type of speech helps children guide their own thinking.
What is inner speech?
This study showed monkeys preferred comfort over food.
What is Harlow's monkey study?
This is a major limitation of parenting research.
What is correlation does not equal causation?