Stages of Development
This is the stage where babies learn through their senses and actions
Sensorimotor Stage
The study of how people think, learn, and behave.
psychology
Piaget watched children solve problems and play instead of giving them written tests. What type of research is this?
The part of your brain shaped like an almond.
Amygdala
What did Jean Piaget study?
Jean Piaget studied how children think and learn.
This stage is when children begin to use language but struggle with logic.
Preoperational stage?
Mental structures that help us organize and understand information.
schemas
A child is shown two identical amounts of water, but one is poured into a taller glass. The child thinks one has more.
conservation task
This part of the brain is responsible for thinking, decision-making, and planning.
Frontal lobe
What is the theory Piaget is known for developing?
cognitive development
In this stage, children start to think logically but only about concrete, real things.
Concrete Operational stage
When you fit new information into what you already know.
assimilation
This test checks if a child understands that objects still exist even when they are hidden.
object permanence
This part of the brain helps control balance and coordination.
cerebellum
Before becoming famous for studying children’s thinking, Piaget originally studied this branch of biology...
zoology
This stage allows individuals to think abstractly and consider hypothetical situations.
Formal Operational stage
When you change your existing understanding because new information doesn’t fit.
accommodation
How does the conservation of mass experiment work?
Children are shown two balls of clay where one gets flattened or rolled into a different shape. Children are shown that changing the shape of clay does not change how much material it has.
This part of the brain controls basic life functions like breathing and heart rate.
brainstem
Piaget believed children learn by interacting with the world around them, which is formally called...?
Active learning
A child can solve math problems logically but struggles with abstract ideas like justice or freedom.
Concrete Operational stage
The young child thinks everyone thinks as they do and shares their feelings and desires.
Egocentrism
A child is asked to explain what another person sitting across the table can see.
perspective-taking (or the Three Mountains task)
This part of the brain helps process visual information from the eyes.
occipital lobe
Jean Piaget was born in what year?
1896