Piaget Pieces
A Swiss psychologist known for his theory of cognitive development in children
Who was Jean Piaget?
The age range of the sensorimotor stage.
What is 0-2?
The age range of the preoperational stage.
What is 2-7?
The age range for children in the Concrete Operational Stage.
What is 7-11 years?
The age at which Formal Operational thinking typically begins.
What is 12?
the process of incorporating new information into existing schemas
What is assimilation?
Understanding that objects continue to exist even when they cannot be seen.
What is object permanence?
The inability to see the world from another person's perspective.
What is egocentrism?
The understanding that quantity remains the same despite changes in shape.
What is conservation?
The ability to form hypotheses and use the scientific method to understand and explain the world.
What is scientific reasoning?
the process of altering existing schemas or creating new schemas to fit new information
What is accommodation?
Babies learn primarily through these natural and automatic movements.
What are reflexes?
Focusing on one aspect of a situation and ignoring other important details.
What is centration?
The ability to arrange objects in order based on size, length, or another attribute.
What is seriation?
The ability to think about multiple causes, represent all combinations of a given set of items, produce combinations systematically.
What is combinatorial reasoning?
A mental framework that helps individuals organize and interpret information.
What is a schema in Piaget’s theory?
The ability to replicate an observed behavior after some time; emerges around 18-24 months.
What is deferred imitation?
The belief that inamimate objects have human-like qualities or intentions.
What is animism?
The understanding and awareness that actions can be reversed.
What is reversibility?
Thinking in terms of ratios, percents, and calculating risk or chance.
What is reasoning about probability and proportion?
A state of imbalance between a person's knowledge and new information.
What is diseqyilibrium?
An example of this goal-directed behavior would be when a baby discovers that sucking his thumb feels good, so he repeats the action.
What is a circular reaction?
Children begin to rely more on logic than just perception alone in this substage of the preoperational stage.
What is the intuitive thought substage?
The ability to understand how different elements relate to each other, such as if A>B and B>C, then A>C.
What is transitivity?
The ability to think logically and abstractly about statements, proposals, or considerations.
What is propositional thinking?