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What is cognitive development?
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The construction of thought processes, including remembering, problem solving, and decision-making, from childhood through adolescence to adulthood.
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What is a scheme?
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An organized pattern of sensorimotor functioning
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Assimilation
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: the process in which people understand an experience in terms of their current stage of cognitive development and way of thinking
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Accommodation
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Changes in existing ways of thinking that occur in response to encounters with new stimuli or events
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Piaget believed that action = knowledge. What does this mean
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Piaget suggested that knowledge is the product of direct motor behavior.
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Sensorimotor
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Piaget’s initial major stage of cognitive development, which can be broken into 6 substages
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Sensorimotor substage 1
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(first month) The various reflexes that determine the infant’s interactions with the world are at the center of the infant’s cognitive life
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Sensorimotor substage 2
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(1 to 4 months) Infants begin to coordinate what were separate actions into single, integrates activities
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Sensorimotor substage 3
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(4 to 8 months) Infants take major strides in shifting their cognitive horizons beyond themselves and begin to act in the outside world
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Sensorimotor substage 4
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(8 to 12 months) Infants begin to use more calculated approaches to producing event, coordinating several schemes to generate a single act
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Sensorimotor substage 5
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(12 to 18 months) Infants develop what Piaget regards as the deliberate variation of actions that bring desirable consequences
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Sensorimotor substage 6
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(18 months to 2 years) The capacity for mental representation or symbolic though
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Preoperational stage
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(2 years to 7) in which children’s use of symbolic thinking grows, mental reasoning emerges, and the use of concepts increases
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Concrete operational stage
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(7 to 12) characterized by the active, and appropriate, use of logic.
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Formal operational stage
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(12 to 15) people develop the ability to think abstractly
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