PIAGETS THEORY OF COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT

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Abnormal Psychology

Last updated 10:34 AM on 11/12/22
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What are the 4 stages of piaget's
sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational
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What is a schema
a mental picture of the world that allows us to understand the world around us
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What is assimilation
new info merged with existing schema
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What is accomodation
new info doesn't fit existing schema and new schema is made
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What is an example of assimilation
a child encounters a dog and makes a schema, encounters a different looking dog and adjusts schema
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What is an example of accomodation
a child encounters a dog and makes schema, encounters a horse and tries to use existing schema to understand the horse when it doesn't fit they make a new schema
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When does sensorimotor occur
0 to 2 yrs
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When does preoperational occur
2 to 6 years
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When does concrete operational occur
7 to 12 years
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When does formal operational occur
12+ years
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What are the features of sensorimotor
lack of object permanence
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What is object permanence
understanding object exists even when it is not visible
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What are the features of preoperational
aminism, egocentrisms, object permanence develops
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What is animism
believing inanimate objects have feelings
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What is egocentrism
only able to percieve situations from their POV
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What are the feautures of concrete operational
decentration develops at start, conservation and reversibility develop at end of stage, seriation
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What is decentration
being able to deal with two bits of info at the same time
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What is reversibility
understanding that objects/number can be changed and taken back to original state
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What is conservation
understanding that if object appearance changes the properties don't
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What is seriation
the ability to arrange a collection of items in a specific order
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What are the features of formal operational
hypothetical and abstract thinking
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What are the criticisms of Piaget's theory
Reductionist, some adults don't reach formal operation,underestimating age children can achieve different parts of the stage
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Why is Piaget's theory reductionist
Does not take into account the importance of role models in child's learning