PSY101 - Quizlet 13
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AbrahamFeinberg on October 16, 2011
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piaget's cognitive development 1
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Terms | Definitions |
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 Jean Piaget | ____ ____ was a Swiss developmental psychologist, zoologist, and philosopher, who was very interested in how we know things and make meaning out of the world. |
| constructivism | According to Piaget, we construct knowledge and meaning from the interaction between the environment and our own thoughts. This perspective is called ____. |
| schema | A mental structure (proposed by Piaget) that we use to help us organize and interpret information. |
| assimilation | Interpretation of new information in accordance with existing schemas. |
| accommodation | The process of adjusting existing schemas so that new information can fit better. |
| mistakes | While trying to standardize children's intelligence tests, Piaget found that children of a particular age tend to make the same types of ____. |
| qualitative | Piaget proposed that the way children think undergoes a series of ____ (quantitative/qualitative) changes (or stages of development) as they age. |
| sensorimotor | During the ____ stage, infants learn about the world through their sensory impressions and motor activities. |
| schemas | At first, infants in the sensorimotor stage lack ___ for thinking about or making sense of the sensory information they receive. |
| cause-effect | Infants in the sensorimotor stage begin to construct simple ____ schemas by associating their actions with the sensory results. |
| object permanence | An important understanding that infants lack at the beginning of the sensorimotor stage (but soon start to develop) is that of ____ ____. |
| object permanence | The realization that objects continue to exist when not in view. |
| A-not-B | Even once infants begin to learn object permanence, they may still make the ____ error. |
| A-not-B | In the ____ error, infants look where they found something, rather than where they saw it placed. |
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