ILTS Early Childhood
Education (206) Exam 2026
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, Equilibrium: -Family's balance and consistency
Sensorimotor Stage (Piaget): -Birth-2 years old, Infants learn through environmental input they receive through
their senses; motor actions they engage in; and through feedback they receive from
their bodies and the environment about their actions
Sensorimotor Stage (Piaget), First 3 substages: -From birth to 1 month old, infant learns to comprehend their environment through
their inborn reflexes such as sucking or looking around.
-From 1-4 months old, babies begin to coordinate their physical sensations with new
schemas they form to represent elements of reality.
-From 4-8 months (Secondary Circular Reactions), children repeat rewarding
actions but now they are focused on things in the environment that they can affect
Last 3 substages of Sensorimotor stage: -From 8-12 month (Coordination of Reactions): having begun repeating actions
purposefully to achieve environmental effects during the previous substage and
further explore their surroundings. Frequently imitate others
-(Tertiary Circular Reactions), 12-18 months, children begin to experiment through
rial and error.
-(Early Representational Thought) 18-24 months, children begin representing
objects and events with symbols
Object Permanence: the awareness that things continue to exist even when not perceived (typically 8-9
months)
Schema and Schema development: -A schema does not represent an individual object, but a category or class of things.
Conservation: -The cognitive ability to understand that objects or substances retain their properties
of numbers or amounts even when their appearance, shape or configuration
changes. ex: liquid volume experiment
Preoperational Stage: -(Piaget), 2-6 years children cannot yet perform mental operations nor manipulate
information mentally.
Concrete Operational Stage: -(Piaget) 6-7 years, children begin to think logically using cause and effect to things
they can see, feel or manipulate physically. However, they still struggle to think
abstractly.
Preoperational Stage Continued: - (Piaget), children between 2-6 have begun using objects to represent other things
through exploration of pretend/make-beleive play.
-Piaget termed pre operational children "egocentric" in that they literally cannot
adopt another point of view even concretely
Animism: -Develops in pre operational stage
-Assigning human beliefs, qualities, feelings and actions to inanimate objects
-Related to egocentrism in regard to everything revolving around oneself
Education (206) Exam 2026
| Study Guide, Practice
Questions, Answers,
Rationales & Exam Review
| Complete Ethics Study
Guide
Updated 2026 Questions and Answers
100% Verified Exam Prep and Comprehensive
Rationales
Included
, Equilibrium: -Family's balance and consistency
Sensorimotor Stage (Piaget): -Birth-2 years old, Infants learn through environmental input they receive through
their senses; motor actions they engage in; and through feedback they receive from
their bodies and the environment about their actions
Sensorimotor Stage (Piaget), First 3 substages: -From birth to 1 month old, infant learns to comprehend their environment through
their inborn reflexes such as sucking or looking around.
-From 1-4 months old, babies begin to coordinate their physical sensations with new
schemas they form to represent elements of reality.
-From 4-8 months (Secondary Circular Reactions), children repeat rewarding
actions but now they are focused on things in the environment that they can affect
Last 3 substages of Sensorimotor stage: -From 8-12 month (Coordination of Reactions): having begun repeating actions
purposefully to achieve environmental effects during the previous substage and
further explore their surroundings. Frequently imitate others
-(Tertiary Circular Reactions), 12-18 months, children begin to experiment through
rial and error.
-(Early Representational Thought) 18-24 months, children begin representing
objects and events with symbols
Object Permanence: the awareness that things continue to exist even when not perceived (typically 8-9
months)
Schema and Schema development: -A schema does not represent an individual object, but a category or class of things.
Conservation: -The cognitive ability to understand that objects or substances retain their properties
of numbers or amounts even when their appearance, shape or configuration
changes. ex: liquid volume experiment
Preoperational Stage: -(Piaget), 2-6 years children cannot yet perform mental operations nor manipulate
information mentally.
Concrete Operational Stage: -(Piaget) 6-7 years, children begin to think logically using cause and effect to things
they can see, feel or manipulate physically. However, they still struggle to think
abstractly.
Preoperational Stage Continued: - (Piaget), children between 2-6 have begun using objects to represent other things
through exploration of pretend/make-beleive play.
-Piaget termed pre operational children "egocentric" in that they literally cannot
adopt another point of view even concretely
Animism: -Develops in pre operational stage
-Assigning human beliefs, qualities, feelings and actions to inanimate objects
-Related to egocentrism in regard to everything revolving around oneself
