Life
Definitions to Know
The Four Theories
100

The Country He Was From

What is Switzerland

100

Child Development

What is the process through which human beings typically grow and mature from infancy through adulthood

100

Theory of Cognitive Development

What is the nature of knowledge itself and how humans gradually come to acquire, construct, and use it

200

How Long He Lived For

What was from 1896-1980

200

Gross Motor Skills

What is the abilities that let us do tasks that involve large muscles in our torso, legs, and arms

200

They want to watch, hear, taste, touch things around them. They learn about their environment by sensation: watching, grasping, sucking and manipulating objects they can get their eyes and hands on.

What is the Sensorimotor Intelligence stage

300

His Main Career 

What is a Developmental Psychologist

300

Fine Motor Skills

What is the ability to make movements using the small muscles in our hands and wrists

300

Children learn how to think abstractly, understand symbolic concepts, and use language in more sophisticated ways. They learn to use words to describe people, their feelings and their environments.

What is the Proportional Thinking stage

400

The Woman He Married

Who is Valentine Châtenay

400

Seriation

What is Arranging items along a quantitative dimension, such as length or weight, in a methodical way is now demonstrated by the concrete operational child

400

Children can understand much more complex abstract concepts, such as time, space, and quantity. They can apply these concepts to concrete situations.

What is the Concrete Operational stage

500

The Universities He Attended

What is The University of Zurich and University of Neuchâtel


500

Decentration

What is Concrete operational children no longer focus on only one dimension of any object, they can start to consider the changes in other dimensions too

500

Children are capable of more abstract, hypothetical, and theoretical reasoning. They are no longer bound to observable and physical events. They can approach and resolve problems systematically by formulating hypotheses and methodically testing them out.

What is the Formal Operational Stage

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