Adaptations
Piaget's basic, unchanging, cognitive tendencies.
What are invariant functions?
Sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operation
What are the 4 periods of development?
To use one secondary scheme as a means to achieving another scheme.
What is means end behavior?
Set of mental schemes enabling child to understand relations among objects
What are Concrete Operations?
The ability to adjust to the environment based on observations made.
What is adapting?
Unconscious reactions to stimuli
What are reflexes?
The understanding that matter can change in appearance w/o changing in quantity
What is conservation?
That which could cause another person to have a belief that is not true.
What is False Belief?
Adaptation, accommodation, and equilibrium
What are the 3 components of adaptation?
The understanding that objects continue to exist even when they cannot be seen or acted upon.
What is object permanence?
The tendency to think in terms of one variable at a time
What is centration?
Thinking that takes multiple variables into account
What is decentration?
A behavior or thought that represents a group of ideas and events in a person’s experience; a ‘unit’ of knowledge, relating to some aspect of the world
What is a schema?
Children who are surprised when an object is no longer there experience this
What is Substage 2?
The inability to understand that another person's view or opinion may be different than your own.
What is egocentrism?
The understanding of other people’s ideas, beliefs, and intentions
What is Theory of Mind?
The ability to connect and sort information from our environment into various connecting schemas
What is organization?
A child that searches for an object under covers experiences this.
What is Substage 4?
The child’s tendency to endow inanimate objects with the qualities of living organisms– qualities such as consciousness.
What is animism?
This refers to the young child’s sense of cause and effect. In Piaget’s book, the preoperational mind is so active that it can potentially link any two events in cause-and-effect fashion, if those events occur close to one another in time or space.
What is Phenomenistic Causality?