CM 2113 WANG TEST 2 2026 FINAL REVIEW
PACK COMPLETE QUESTION SET AND CORE
CONCEPT SUMMARY
◉ piaget's key ideas about children. Answer: ***child as scientist***
children:
- are active learners
- learn through discovery
- are intrinsically motived (ex to learn speech for social interaction)
◉ 2 ways nature and nurture interact. Answer: 1) adaptation:
responding to demands of enviro to meet one's goals
ex: army crawling before true crawling is learned
2) organization:
tendency to integrate observations into cohearant knowlege
◉ 3 processes that propel devel aka sources of continuity. Answer:
assimilation
accommodation
equilibration
,◉ assimilation. Answer: INCORPORATING new information into
existing schemas (knowledge about world)
ex: dropping diff things to see diffs
◉ accommodation. Answer: CHANGING existing schemas to better
fit new observ
ex: diff of dropping solid vs liquid
◉ equilibration. Answer: balancing assimilation & accommodation
◉ sources of discontinuity. Answer: argues develop is
discontinuous--occurs in defined hierarchical stages
◉ central properties of piaget's stages. Answer: qualitative change -
obvious B change
broad applicability - motor, cog., social, emot.
brief transitions -
invariant sequence - stages always happen in same order
◉ piaget stage order. Answer: sensorimotor
preoperational
concrete operational
, formal operational
◉ sensorimotor stage. Answer: birth - 24 mo
learning through SENSES
tasks they learn:
- object permanence
- A-not-B error: looking for object in its initial location (A) despite
seeing it moved to B location
◉ preoperational. Answer: 2-7 yrs
thinking internally
- symbolic representation: use of one object to stand for another (ex:
imaginary play)
- egocentrism: perceiving things only from their POV (ex: 3
mountain task)
PACK COMPLETE QUESTION SET AND CORE
CONCEPT SUMMARY
◉ piaget's key ideas about children. Answer: ***child as scientist***
children:
- are active learners
- learn through discovery
- are intrinsically motived (ex to learn speech for social interaction)
◉ 2 ways nature and nurture interact. Answer: 1) adaptation:
responding to demands of enviro to meet one's goals
ex: army crawling before true crawling is learned
2) organization:
tendency to integrate observations into cohearant knowlege
◉ 3 processes that propel devel aka sources of continuity. Answer:
assimilation
accommodation
equilibration
,◉ assimilation. Answer: INCORPORATING new information into
existing schemas (knowledge about world)
ex: dropping diff things to see diffs
◉ accommodation. Answer: CHANGING existing schemas to better
fit new observ
ex: diff of dropping solid vs liquid
◉ equilibration. Answer: balancing assimilation & accommodation
◉ sources of discontinuity. Answer: argues develop is
discontinuous--occurs in defined hierarchical stages
◉ central properties of piaget's stages. Answer: qualitative change -
obvious B change
broad applicability - motor, cog., social, emot.
brief transitions -
invariant sequence - stages always happen in same order
◉ piaget stage order. Answer: sensorimotor
preoperational
concrete operational
, formal operational
◉ sensorimotor stage. Answer: birth - 24 mo
learning through SENSES
tasks they learn:
- object permanence
- A-not-B error: looking for object in its initial location (A) despite
seeing it moved to B location
◉ preoperational. Answer: 2-7 yrs
thinking internally
- symbolic representation: use of one object to stand for another (ex:
imaginary play)
- egocentrism: perceiving things only from their POV (ex: 3
mountain task)
