Piaget
infants begin to learn about the world around them through senses and motor skills
What is the Sensorimotor stage?
Grows a child's cognitive development
What is play?
A person's personal environment. Their home life and family relations for example.
In this stage of cognitive development, a child uses pretend play. They are also considered egocentric.
What is the preoperational stage?
This age group can can accomplish more with the assistance from someone with more knowledge than themselves.
What are children?
Connecting environments
What is the mesosystem?
When critical thinking and math skills emerge. Egocentric though begins to devolve.
What is the concrete operational stage?
This developed in the first few years of life according to Vygotsky
What is thought and language?
Social and cultural value.
What is macrosystem?
When abstract thinking and moral reasoning emerge
What is the formal operational stage?
Vygotsky's theory suggests this begins with social activities.
What is mental process?
These change over time. These can be any of the child's environments or out side factors that change.
What is a chronosystem?