Sensorimotor Stage
The age range that the sensorimotor stage takes place
What is birth to 2 years old?
The age range that the preoperational stage takes place
What is 2 to 7 years old?
The age range that the concrete operational stage takes place
What is 7 to 11 years old?
The age range that the formal operational stage takes place
What is 11 years old onwards?
The term used to describe mental structures or frameworks that individuals use to organize and interpret information from the environment
What are schemes?
Infant develop the understanding that objects continue to exist even when they are out of sight
What is object permanence?
The term refers to a child's difficulty in seeing the world from any perspective other that their own.
What is egocentrism?
Thinking that allows children to consider multiple aspects of a problem and solve it systematically
What is operational thinking
Hypothetico-deductive reasoning and propositional thought both form during this stage
What are the two major features of the formal operational stage?
These two processes are involved in adapting schemes to new information
What are assimilation and accommodation?
Infant's repeating the same action again and again in order repeat the same sensorimotor response
What is circular reaction?
The belief that inanimate objects have lifelike qualities, such as thoughts, wishes, feelings, and intentions
What is animistic thinking?
The ability to order items along a antiquate dimension
What is seriation?
When faced with a problem, they start with a hypothesis, or prediction about variables that might affect an outcome, from which they deduce logical, testable inferences. Then they systematically isolate and combine variables to see which of these inferences are confirmed in the real world
What is hypothetico-deductive reasoning?
What is adaptation?
The sensorimotor stage is so vast the Piaget had to divide it into how many substages?
What are the six substages?
The idea that certain physical characteristics of objects remain the same, even when their outward appearance changes
What is conservation?
The capacity to think through a series of steps and then mentally reverse direction, returning to the starting point
What is reversibility?
Adolescents' ability to evaluate the logic of propositions without referring to real-world circumstances
What is propositional thought?
A process that occurs internally, apart from direct contact with the environment. Results in new schemes being linked with other schemes
What is organization?
The sample that Piaget based the sensorimotor sequence on?
Who are Piaget's own three children?
The focus on one aspect of a situation, neglecting the other important features
What is centration?
Focusing on several aspects of a problem and relating them, rather than centring on just one
What is decentration?
The form of thinking develops during the formal operational stage and refers to ability to think about abstract concepts and hypothetical situations
What is abstract reasoning?
The term for the process of incorporating new information into existing cognitive structures or schemes
What is assimilation?