PSY DEV

Schemes
- structures or programs guide
- dev child’s thoughts
Assimilation
- modify new information 2 fit existing
- schemes
Accommodation

restructure existing schemes so new info's is better understood
Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development

Sensorimotor, Preoperational, Concrete Operational, Formal Operational
Sensorimotor
- Birth to 2
- innate motor responses to stimuli
Preoperational
- 2 to 7
- Dev mental rep/lang use
- Egocentrism, Animistic thinking, Centration, Irreversibility
Concrete Operational
- 7 to 11
- understand conservation not abstract
Formal Operational
- 12+
- abstract thought

Author

Nayja

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Card Set

PSY DEV

Description

set 10

Updated

2013-04-18T00:43:02Z

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