Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development

What is the first stage in Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development?

• Pre-Operational Stage

• Sensorimotor Stage

• Formal Operational Stage

• Concrete Operational Stage

What is a schema?

• Interpreting our new experiences in terms of our existing schemas. (Mistaking something for the wrong thing.)

• A concept or framework that organizes and interprets information. (Learning something for the first time.)

• Adapting our current understandings to incorporate new information. (Fixing the mistake.)

• Balance between assimilation and accommodation.

What is the second stage in Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development?

• Concrete Operational Stage

• Sensorimotor Stage

• Formal Operational Stage

• Pre-Operational Stage

What is assimilation?

• All the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating.

• Adapting our current understandings to incorporate new information. (Fixing the mistake.)

• Balance between assimilation and accommodation.

• Interpreting our new experiences in terms of our existing schemas. (Mistaking something for another thing.)

What is the third stage in Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development?

• Sensorimotor Stage

• Pre-Operational Stage

• Concrete Operational Stage

• Formal Operational Stage

What is accommodation?

• A concept or framework that organizes and interprets information. (Learning something for the first time.)

• Interpreting our new experiences in terms of our existing schemas. (Mistaking something for another thing.)

• Adapting our current understandings to incorporate new information. (Fixing the mistake.)

• All the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating.

What is the fourth stage in Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development?

• Formal Operational Stage

• Pre-Operational Stage

• Concrete Operational Stage

• Sensorimotor Stage

What age does the formal observational stage occur?

• 0-2

• 2-4

• 7-11

• 12-Adulthood

What description goes with the sensorimotor stage?

• Abstract reasoning.

• Experiencing the world through senses and actions (looking, hearing, touching, mouthing, and grasping.)

• Thinking logically about concrete events; grasping concrete analogies and performing arithmetical operations.

• Representing things with words and images; using intuitive rather than logical reasoning.

What age does the concrete operational stage occur?

• 0-2

• 2-4

• 7-11

• 12-Adulthood