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Chap. 5 & Chap. 6
Developmental Psych. Professor Pauley
Question | Answer |
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Piaget believed? | all children pass through a series of universal stages in a fixed order. |
What are the universal stages? | sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operations, formal operations. |
ASSIMILATION | when people understand an experience in terms of their current stage of cognitive development and way of thinking. |
ACCOMMODATION | change in existing ways of thinking that occur in response to encounters with new stimuli or events. |
SENSORIMOTOR STAGE | first major of cognitive development in Piaget's Theory. Can be broken down into 6 substages. |
CIRCULATION REACTION | an activity that permits the construction of cognitive schemes through repetition of a chance motor event. |
When does Substage 4: Co-ordination of Secondary Circular Reactions happen? | 8-12 months of age |
GOAL-DIRECTED BEHAVIOR | where several schemes are combined and coordinated to generate a single act to solve a problem. |
OBJECTIVE PERMANENCE | the realization that people and objects exist even they cannot be seen. |