Biography
Cognitive Development Theory
Stages
Key Terms
Bonus
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What is he most known for?

What is the theory of Cognitive Development.

100

Explain the Cognitive development theory

The study of how children develop intellectually throughout their childhood. 
100

When does Stage 4 occur?

 What is 10-12 months 

100

Object Permanence

When things continue to exist even though they cannot be seen or touched.

100

What is Animism?

The distinction of living and non living things. 

200

When and where was Jean Piaget born?

What is Switzerland on August 9, 1896. 

200

How many periods are found in his theory?

What is 3 periods. 
200

What stage can children imitate behavior without a model there?

 Stage 6

200

Egocentric

When someone is thinking and seeing the world from their own standpoint and having difficulty understanding someone else's. 

200
What is imprinting?

What is a persons natural reaction to things?

300

When did Jean Piaget die? 

What is September 16, 1980.

300

When does period 2 begin?

What is 2 years old 

300

What stage occurs from 2-7 years old?

What is the pre-operational stage. 

300

Critical period

A specific time in human development when certain skills or abilities are most easily learned 




300

What is another name for stage 1?

What is Sensorimotor

400

How many universities did Piaget attend? What are the names of them?

What is two. The University of Neuchâtel and the University of Zurich. 

400

What does Piaget focus on when testing children?

What is their wrong answers 

400

When can an infant discover and reproduce events outside him or herself 



What is stage 3 

400

Representational thought

When children are able to picture or represent things in their mind.

400

What is his wife's name?

Valentine Châtenay

500

Name 2 out of 3 Piaget's children 

Lucienne, Laurent, and Jacqueline 

500
In what year did Piaget develop his theory?

 What is 1936. 

500
Describe the concrete operations stage
Children start to solve problems more logically and begin to organize their thinking. (Ages 7-11)
500

Conservation

When the given quantity does not change when its appearance changes

500

What increases during the final stage?

What is logic. 

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