Psychology 1/2 Piaget Theory

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schemata

mental structure/frameworks

assimilation

taking new information and fitting it into an existing schemata

accommodation

changing a pre-existing schemata to fit new information

sensorimotor

infants construct their understanding of the world through coordinating senses with motor skills (birth-2yrs)

preoperational

child becomes able to imagine and think about objects/events (2-7yrs)

concrete operational

child capable of logical thought and mental operations, but only for immediate objects/events

formal operational

more complex though processes become evident and thinking becomes sophisticated (12+ yrs)

object permanence

the understanding that objects still exist outside of their point of view/touch

goal-oriented behaviour

ability to perform and successfully complete a set of actions

symbolic thinking

ability to use symbols to represent objects, places or events

egocentrism

the difficulty to see things from other people’s point of view

animism

the belief that everything that exists has a form of consciousness

transformation

the understanding that something can change from one state/structure to another

centration

the inability to focus on more than one task at a time

reversibility

the ability to mentally follow a set of events back to its starting point

conservation

the understanding that an object’s mass does not change when the object changes appearance

classification

the ability to organise information into categories based on common features

abstract thinking

a way of thinking that does not require sight in order to understand concepts

logical thinking

the ability to develop strategies to solve problems and make predictions or explanations

cognition

the mental process of gaining knowledge through experience