HG & D Ch.6-10

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Piaget stage where child uses 5 senses to explore their environment. All things learned are based on experiences, or trial and error.

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Sensorimotor

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Piaget stage where children are more logical and methodical. Less egocentric, and more aware of the outside world and events that they themselves can touch or experience.

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Concrete operational

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Piaget stage in which children use symbols to relate to abstract concepts. They are able to think logically about hypothetical or "what if" scenarios.

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Formal operational

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Piaget stage when the development of language, memory, and imagination has begun. Intelligence is both egocentric and intuitive.

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Preoperational

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________________ is a term he used to represent the building blocks of knowledge that children use to interpret and predict the world around them.

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Schema

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_____________ is using an existing schema and applying it to a new situation or object. It is connecting new knowledge with old.

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Assimilation

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________________ is changing approaches when an existing schema doesn’t work in a particular situation thus creating new mental framework for new information.

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Accommodation

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What is the primary achievement of the Sensorimotor Stage in Piaget's theory of cognitive development?

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Development of object permanence

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What does the achievement of object permanence signify about a child's cognitive development?

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They understand that objects continue to exist, even when out of sight.

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The word sensorimotor is derived from two words, meaning the body's five senses and the:

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physical act of doing.