Theories and Beliefs
Play
Age Groups
Child Development
Fun Facts
100

Piaget believed children progressed through stages during their development of intelligence: Sensorimotor period, Pre-operational period, Concrete-operational period, and ____________. 

What is the Formal Operational stage?

100

The type of play that involves the creation of imaginary roles and situations and frequently accompanies the construction of pretend objects, but the representation is more abstract:

What is Dramatic Play?

100

The stage/period in which generally lasts between 2 and 7 years of age. 

What is the pre-operational period? 

100

Jean Piaget's Primary focus was:

What is Intellectual and social development? 

100

Many of Jean Piaget's observations were based on this. 

What is his three children?

200

According to Piaget, the means of organization is intelligent __________, where humans modify their means of interacting with the environment to fit their personal needs. 

What is Adaptation?

200

"A happy display of known actions"

What is Practice or Functional Play?

200

The period where children start to understand what the world is made from and start to gain motor coordination and sensory

What is the sensorimotor period? 

200

When a child repeatedly demonstrates the mastery of a movement such as grasping, pulling, and kicking.

What is functional play?

200

Jean Piaget Observed his children and other children in this preschool location 

What is Geneva, Switzerland 

300

During this period the child's understanding of the world is gradually constructed from a coordination of motor and sensory information, but the child lacks the representational capacity reflected in symbolic play and language. 

What is a sensorimotor period?

300

Piaget believed children developed three types of knowledge during play: physical, logical-mathematical, and _________:

What is social?

300

The stage that generally last between ages 7 and 12. 

What is the concrete-operational period?

300

A child’s ability to express their internal concerns and understandings is displayed through ______.

What is their play stage?

300

Jean Piaget had a ______ view.

What is constructivism? 

400

Jean Piaget’s work on intellectual development focused on social, moral, linguistic, and _______   ________.

What is emotional development?

400

The type of play that involves the use of mental representation to pretend that one object stands for another or to take on a make-believe role.

What is Symbolic Play?

400

The stage that is not able to form true concepts where classes and relations are reliably coordinated. 

What is the pre-conceptual period?

400

A young child who fails to take the point of view of others' language and thoughts.

What is egocentric?

400

At this age Piaget published his first scientific paper observation of an albino sparrow

What is age ten?

500

Piaget’s thought process of how we know the world combines biology, psychology, and philosophy.

What is genetic epistemology?

500

The type of play that provides a natural link between practice or functional play and more sophisticated forms of symbolic play.

What is constructive play?

500

The second stage of play that begins when an infant is 18 months of age.

What is symbolic play?

500

As children mature they begin to take other people’s stand points into account.

What is sociocentric? 

500

Piaget used this innovative method to gather insights into children's thinking and cognitive development, which included observing his own children's play and problem solving behaviors.

What is naturalistic observation?