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The first scientists to prove that a child's cognitive processes are fundementally different from adults
Piaget
Cognitive structures that consist of a number of organized ideas that grow and differentiate with experience
schemas
Assimilation occurs when new info is
absorbed into existing schemas
Accomodation occurs when new info
results in adjusting old or creating new schemas
what occurs when existing schemas are used to interpret new info?
assimilation
What involves changes and adaptions into schemas?
accomodation
If a child refers to a pig as a doggie that child is doing what?
assimilating
When the child learns that a truck is different from a car they child is doing what?
accomodation
The four stages of piagets cognitive development model are
sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational
Preoperational stage
egocentic thinking, 2-7, animistic thinking
sensimotor stage
birth-2, preceptual-motor skills, object permenance
When a child feels everything happens becuase of themselves, this is an example of
egocentrism in the preoperational stage prob
what refers to a young child's inability to experience anyone elses point of view?
preoperational ethnocentrism
when a child learns that momy contines to exist even when she is not seen they have developed
object permanence
newborns are born legally
blind
Author
andreathors16
ID
73720
Card Set
Piaget
Description
test 3
Updated
2011-03-28T17:51:32Z
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