PSY101 - Quizlet 14
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AbrahamFeinberg on October 18, 2011
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piaget's cognitive development 2 / personality 1
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 preoperational | In the ____ stage of development, children start to use symbols to represent and think about things, rather than relying on what they can directly sense; however, their logical reasoning about those symbolic representations is limited. |
| centration | The inability to take into account more than one perceptual factor at a time (e.g., both the height and width of a glass). |
| decentration | The ability to take into account more than one perceptual factor at a time (e.g., both the height and width of a glass). |
| egocentrism | The tendency to view the world as centered around oneself, usually as a result of difficulty in perspective-taking. |
| perspective-taking | Imagining what the world looks like from another person's point of view. |
| concrete operational | During the ____ ____ stage, children gain the mental operations that allow them to think logically about concrete events. |
| abstract | Children in the concrete operational stage may have difficulty dealing with ____ ideas or hypothetical questions. |
| formal operational | During the ____ ____ stage of development, adolescents begin to think logically about abstract concepts. |
| logic | During the formal operational stage, adolescents are better able to evaluate the abstract ____ of something separately from its "concrete" content. |
| concrete operational | Consider these statements: "People are faster than horses. Horses are faster than cars. Therefore, people are faster than cars." Someone in the ____ ____ stage would NOT yet be able to evaluate the abstract logic of this statement separate from its concrete content.. |
| sequence | Overall, the evidence has supported the general ____ and timing of cognitive development that Piaget suggested. |
| True | True or False: The fact that there are growth spurts in the brain at about the same time as Piaget's stages is evidence that suggests his theory is generally correct. |
| variable | The ages that mark the boundaries between Piaget's stages should not be treated as hard rules, because, in reality, they are highly ____. |
| centration | In the preoperational stage, children's logical reasoning is limited. Some examples of such limitations are ____ and egocentrism. |
| egocentrism | In the preoperational stage, children's logical reasoning is limited. Some examples of such limitations are centration and ____. |
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