Piaget

Question 1

first psychologist to systematically study ________

Answer 1

cognitive perspective (focus on changes in thinking rather than changes in behavior)

Question 2

Piaget’s main theory

Answer 2

cognitive stages of development

Question 3

Cognitive Stages of Development overview

Answer 3

• posits that development happens on its own via maturation (as get older, ability to understand world increases)
• disagrees that intelligence = fixed trait
• focused on development rather than learning
• only looks at children

Question 4

main goal of cognitive stages of development theory

Answer 4

explain how infant, then child, develops into individual who can reason and think using hypotheses

Question 5

3 basic components to this theory

Answer 5

1. schemas
2. adaptation processes
3. stages of cognitive development

Question 6

schemas

Answer 6

“building blocks of knowledge” – how organize knowledge in the brain

Question 7

adaptation processes (3)

Answer 7

1. equilibrium
2. assimilation
3. accommodation

Question 8

equilibrium

Answer 8

• force that moves development along

- occurs when can assimilate all new information (if can’t, disequilibrium will occur until accommodate all info)

Question 9

assimilation

Answer 9

using existing schemas for new things

Question 10

accommodation

Answer 10

changing an existing schema to deal with something new

Question 11

stages of cognitive development (4)

Answer 11

1. sensorimotor
2. preoperational
3. concrete operational
4. formal operational

Question 12

sensorimotor stage

Answer 12

• 0 to 18-24 mos

- goal = object permanence

Question 13

preoperational stage

Answer 13

• 18-24 mos to 7 yrs

- goal = symbolic thought

Question 14

concrete operational stage

Answer 14

• 7 to 11 yrs

- goal = logical thought

Question 15

formal operational stage

Answer 15

• adolescence to adulthood

- goal = abstract thought

Question 16

object permanence

Answer 16

know an object still exists when hidden

Question 17

symbolic thought

Answer 17

can make one thing (a word/object) stand for something else

Question 18

logical thought

Answer 18

can work things out in head