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Cognitive Development in the Preschool Years

Cognitive Development in the Preschool Years

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Molly Ellis

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1.

FLASHCARD QUESTION

Front

According to Jean Piaget, the stage of cognitive development that lasts from ages 2 to 7 during which children's use of symbolic thinking grows, mental reasoning emerges, and the use of concepts increases.

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Preoperational Stage

2.

FLASHCARD QUESTION

Front

According to Piaget, the ability to use a mental symbol, a word, or an object to represent something that is not physically present.

Back

Symbolic function

3.

FLASHCARD QUESTION

Front

The process of concentrating on one limited aspect of a stimulus and ignoring other aspects.

Back

Centration

4.

FLASHCARD QUESTION

Front

The knowledge that quantity is unrelated to the arrangement and physical appearance of objects.

Back

Conservation

5.

FLASHCARD QUESTION

Front

The process whereby one state is changed into another.

Back

Transformation

6.

FLASHCARD QUESTION

Front

Thinking that does not take the viewpoint of others into account.

Back

Egocentric thinking

7.

FLASHCARD QUESTION

Front

Thinking that reflects preschoolers' use of primitive reasoning and their avid acquisition of knowledge about the world.

Back

Intuitive thought

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