Piaget's Stage Theory
This psychologist is known for their theory of cognitive development stages.
Who is Jean Piaget?
A project that transforms public spaces, such as bus stops and sidewalks, into interactive learning environments.
What is Urban Thinkscapes?
One of the best activities parents can do to support early language development.
What is reading books with their child?
This type of play occurs when children explore their environment with adults through interactions that have implicit learning goals.
What is guided play?
This type of shared focus between a child and caregiver helps babies connect words with objects and actions.
What is joint attention?
Piaget's theory of cognitive development includes how many number of stages?
What is four?
This animated show is said to boost children's creativity.
What is Bluey?
This principle states that children learn better through affirmations rather than prohibitions.
What is "keeping it positive"?
This type of play includes dolls and action figures, and helps children develop important social skills.
A toy kitchen encourages children to engage in this type of imaginative activity.
What is pretend?
Babies begin to use gestures like pointing or waving at or around this age.
What is 9-12 months?
This stage spans from birth to 2 years and involves infants using their senses to explore the world.
What is the sensorimotor stage?
Urban Thinkscape promotes this type of learning that happens outside of the classroom.
What is informal learning?
Lower income children are more likely to hear ____________ rather than affirmations.
What are prohibitions?
The key finding of the "Too Many Toys" research study.
What is "less is better"?
Infants listen for this when processing continuous speech to help identify individual words.
What is word boundaries?
Piaget used this term to describe when a child understands that an object still exists even when out of sight.
What is object permanence?
This can interfere with creative play and interactions with caregivers.
What is excessive screen time?
Children who say "goed" instead of "went" are demonstrating this common language error.
What is overregularization?
Children playing together, taking turns, following rules, and working toward a common goal are engaging in this type of play.
What is cooperative play?
Babies tend to stay focused longer on this type of speech, compared to unnatural speech.
What is natural speech?
In this final stage of Piaget’s theory, individuals develop abstract thinking, reasoning, and problem-solving skills.
What is the formal operational stage?
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends that children ages 2 to 5 have no more than this amount of screen time per day.
What is one hour?
At what age is language typically considered fully developed?
What is late adolescence (13-18 years old)?
Fewer toys lead to longer periods of this type of play.
What is focused play?
Research suggests babies may learn language by tracking this, identifying which sounds frequently occur together.
What is statistics?