Piaget's Key Terms
Sets of mental operations, concepts, physical actions, or theories people use to organize the information they acquire about their worlds.
What are schemas?
The gap between what children can do on their own and what they can do with the assistance of others.
What is zone of proximal development?
The ability to think abstractly and reflectively occurs during this stage.
What is formal operations stage?
Children learn that objects exist even though they aren’t seen.
What is Infancy (or Sensorimotor)?
Process by which children mold new information to fit their existing schemes.
What is assimilation?
Children's tendency to perceive, understand, and interpret the world in terms of the self.
What is egocentrism?
Vygotsky placed a strong importance on this with regard to its influence on learning and development.
What is Social Interactions?
Children can use symbols as a tool to think about their environment in this stage.
What is preoperational stage?
In this stage children learn to think about their actions and interactions with others and objects.
What is the preoperational stage?
A unique concept in Piaget's theory that refers to our innate tendency for individuals, when encountering situations that are new and/or do not make sense, to try to make sense of the situation.
What is equilibration?
The understanding that an entity remains the same despite superficial changes in its form or physical appearance.
What is conservation?
Goal directed behavior and object permanence are achieved during this stage.
What is Sensorimotor stage?
Abstract thought and scientific reasoning skills becoming more prevalent, especially for topics about which adolescents have considerable knowledge
What is concrete operational stage?
The discomfort that happens when a learner encounters new information that contradicts what they already know, which leads learners to try to resolve the conflicting feelings.
What is cognitive dissonance?
This the phenomenon wherin an aspect of cognitive development emerges in some domains prior to others.
What is Horizontal decalage?
This is the means which guides children's thinking and behaviors and serves as a self-regulatory function.
What is private speech?
Increasing ability to reason about complex hypothetical and abstract ideas.
What is the formal operational stage?
What happens when individuals change their current way of thinking as a result of acquiring new information.
What is accommodation?
Occurs when individuals acquire new information and fit that information in with their current thinking.
What is assimilation?
This is when teachers and students take turns being the discussion leader. It is through collaborative dialogue that children learn how to regulate their own reading comprehension.
What is reciprocal teaching?
Children develop logical operations for seriation, classification, and conservation during this stage.
What is concrete operations?
Frequent self-talk occurs
What is preoperational stage?