Lifespan Development Chapter 6 Questions
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what are the five concepts Piaget identified? - ✔✔schemes, assimilation and accommodation,
organization, equilibrium and disequilibrium, equilibration
what are schemes? - ✔✔actions or mental representation that organize knowlege
when in a child's life does behavioral scheme occur? what type of scheme is it? - ✔✔infancy-physical
when in a child's life does mental schemes occur? what type of scheme is it? - ✔✔childhood-cognitive
assimilation? - ✔✔incorporate new information
accommodation? - ✔✔adjust existing schemes to take new information
organization? - ✔✔-grouping isolated behaviors into a higher-order cognitive system.
-cognitive organization of experiences
equilibration? - ✔✔explanation of cognitive shift [qualitative] from one stage of thought to next
disequilibrium? - ✔✔cognitive conflict-motivation for change
equilibrium? - ✔✔resolve conflict through assimilation and accommodation, to reach a new balance of
thought
Piaget's Theory of Cognitive development unifies what? - ✔✔experiences and biological maturation to
explain cognitive development
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, what is the motivation of Piaget's theory of Cognitive Development? - ✔✔the internal search for
equilibrium
what are the four stages in Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development - ✔✔sensorimotor, pre-
operational, concrete operational, formal operational
what is the age span for the sensorimotor stage? - ✔✔0-2 years
what happens in the sensorimotor age? - ✔✔experiences and biology combine; concepts of object
permanence, habits
what is the name behind the sensorimotor stage? - ✔✔its life is all sensory motor at this point
what are the six substages of the sensorimotor stage? - ✔✔simple reflexes, primary circular reactions,
secondary circular reactions, coordination of secondary reactions, tertiary circular; novelty, curiosity, and
internalization of schemes
what occurs at the simple reflexes substage? - ✔✔sensation and actions coordinated through reflexes
what occurs in the primary circular reactions substage? - ✔✔behavior without stimulus, repetitive
actions
what occurs in the secondary circular reactions substage? - ✔✔object-oriented, repetition of actions due
to consequences
what occurs in the coordination of secondary reactions substage? - ✔✔first time babies crawl and goal
directed behavior. Coordinates vision and touch, hand and eye; goal directed
what occurs in the tertiary circular substage? - ✔✔purpose in exploration, start of curiosity, interest in
novelty
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what are the five concepts Piaget identified? - ✔✔schemes, assimilation and accommodation,
organization, equilibrium and disequilibrium, equilibration
what are schemes? - ✔✔actions or mental representation that organize knowlege
when in a child's life does behavioral scheme occur? what type of scheme is it? - ✔✔infancy-physical
when in a child's life does mental schemes occur? what type of scheme is it? - ✔✔childhood-cognitive
assimilation? - ✔✔incorporate new information
accommodation? - ✔✔adjust existing schemes to take new information
organization? - ✔✔-grouping isolated behaviors into a higher-order cognitive system.
-cognitive organization of experiences
equilibration? - ✔✔explanation of cognitive shift [qualitative] from one stage of thought to next
disequilibrium? - ✔✔cognitive conflict-motivation for change
equilibrium? - ✔✔resolve conflict through assimilation and accommodation, to reach a new balance of
thought
Piaget's Theory of Cognitive development unifies what? - ✔✔experiences and biological maturation to
explain cognitive development
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, what is the motivation of Piaget's theory of Cognitive Development? - ✔✔the internal search for
equilibrium
what are the four stages in Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development - ✔✔sensorimotor, pre-
operational, concrete operational, formal operational
what is the age span for the sensorimotor stage? - ✔✔0-2 years
what happens in the sensorimotor age? - ✔✔experiences and biology combine; concepts of object
permanence, habits
what is the name behind the sensorimotor stage? - ✔✔its life is all sensory motor at this point
what are the six substages of the sensorimotor stage? - ✔✔simple reflexes, primary circular reactions,
secondary circular reactions, coordination of secondary reactions, tertiary circular; novelty, curiosity, and
internalization of schemes
what occurs at the simple reflexes substage? - ✔✔sensation and actions coordinated through reflexes
what occurs in the primary circular reactions substage? - ✔✔behavior without stimulus, repetitive
actions
what occurs in the secondary circular reactions substage? - ✔✔object-oriented, repetition of actions due
to consequences
what occurs in the coordination of secondary reactions substage? - ✔✔first time babies crawl and goal
directed behavior. Coordinates vision and touch, hand and eye; goal directed
what occurs in the tertiary circular substage? - ✔✔purpose in exploration, start of curiosity, interest in
novelty
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