Erikson
Piaget
Laws of Development
Types of Development
Random Vocabulary
100

Trust vs. Mistrust (age and what they learn)

Ages: 0-1

Learning to trust parents.

100

Description of the sensorimotor stage

Use of senses to learn about world

Control of body

Object permanence

100

Child Development 

The study of children from birth through adolescence.

100

Physical 

The growth of your physical body.

100

Object Permanence

Knowing an object exists even when hidden

200

Industry vs. Inferiority (age and what they learn)

Ages: 7-11

Learning the value of work.

200

Conservation

Quantity remains the same despite changes in appearance

200

Continuous and Orderly

same rate on right vs. left, follows a pattern

200

Emotional 

Recognizing feelings and learning to deal with them appropriately.

200

Seriation

Arranging things in order of size—increasing or decreasing

300

Autonomy vs. Doubt (age and what they learn)

Ages: 1-3

Learning to be independent.

300

Skills learned during the pre-operational stage

Language skills

Classification based on one characteristic

Seriation 

Egocentric thinking

Irreversible thinking

300

Simple to Complex

creeping to crawling

300

Social

Learning to get along with others.

300
Transformation

The change of an object from one state to another.



400

Initiative vs. Guilt (age and what they learn)

Ages: 3-7

Learning to take action.

400

The difference between accommodation and assimilation.

Accommodation: Seeing something new and comparing it to what you already know

Assimilation: Seeing something new and making a new place in your brain for the term

400

Near to Far

roll over before grasp pencil to write name

400

Cognitive

Intellectual and mental growth.

400

Egocentrism 

Inability to differentiate between self and other

500

Identity vs. Identity Confusion (ages and what they learn)

Ages: 11-18

Finding out who you are.

500

The four stages of Piaget's theory (in order with age ranges).

  1. Sensorimotor (0-2)

  2. Pre-operational (2-7)

  3. Concrete Operational (7-11)

  4. Formal Operational (11-adulthood)

500

Head to Toe

lift head, sit up, stand

500

Moral 

Learning right from wrong (values).

500

Reversibility 

Ability to recognize that objects can be changed & returned to their original condition.