Child Development Flashcard

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Theory of Cognitive Development based on a stage oriented process of cognition

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Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development

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Child cries when parent is no longer present.

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Separation Anxiety

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By one year of age, a child realizes that the objects still exist although the object is no longer seen

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object permanence

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All of the following are stages of Cognitive Development –Sensorimotor birth to age 2 EXCEPT: Child cries when parent is no longer present, Child acts on the environment by knocking down blocks, making sounds, finding toes, Child sees an object and reaches for it.

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Thinking about the future

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Child cannot take another point of view. Options: Conservation, Egocentric, Animism, Transductive Logic

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Egocentric

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Child thinks all objects have life.

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Animism

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Children in the Preoperational stage ages 2 to 6 can do the following: Use symbols and language.

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Use symbols and language.

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Child begins to understand that objects can change shape without other changes in their characteristics

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Law of Conservation

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At what ages should a child be able to classify objects into larger classes of objects?

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6-12

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All of the following are examples of formal development from ages 12 to life EXCEPT: Child sees an object and reaches for it, Child thinks abstractly, Child hypothesizes, Child thinks about the future.

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Child sees an object and reaches for it.