Child Dev. Toddler

What theorist taught that sensorimotor and preoperational stages of cognitive development take place during the toddler years.

• Piaget

• Erikson

• Freud

• Harlow

Piaget teaches that_____________________ is the capacity to learn. It is also the ability to interpret and understand everyday situations and to use prior experiences when faced with new situations or problems.

• Emotions

• Intelligence

• Memory

• Senses

Piaget also teaches that _______________________________ means:

concepts are general categories of objects and information. Toddlers might over think labels and categories. i.e.: Every round object is a ball so an apple is a ball

• Concept Development

• Sensory thinking

• Memory

Incidental learning

• is planned by a teacher

• is planned by a parent

• is learning with the right brain lobe

• unplanned

Trial & error learning is:

• formal instruction

• watching and copying others

• trying several solutions to find one that works

• unplanned

Imitation Learning is

• Unplanned

• Trying several solutions to find one that works

• Watching and copying others

• Formal instruction

Directed learning

• Trying several solutions to find one that works

• Formal instruction

• Unplanned

• Watching and copying others

are in the end of the sensorimotor stage and advancing into the preoperational stage

• Infants

• Toddlers

• Preschoolers

Children think in terms of their own activities and what they perceive at the moment. Children learn through imaginative play and continue to view the world in an egocentric manner. Beginning to identify symbols and that symbols have meaning.

• Developed by Piaget

• Preoperational State

• Ages 2-7

• All of the above

Communicable diseases are:

• not passed from one person to another

• often deadly

• cannot be treated or prevented

• are passed from one person to another