Stages of Human Development

_______ gave stages of cognitive development in children.

• Kohlberg

• Erik Erikson

• Jean Piaget

Piaget's 4 stages of development are

• Formal, Concrete, schemas, preconservation

• Sensimotor,Preoperational, Concrete, Formal

• Sensorimotor, preconventional, concrete, Formal

A newborn infant has certain automatic movement patterns called

• Instincts

• Reflexes

• Formal Operations

• Schemas

A child's realization that an object exists even when he or she cannot see or touch it

• Conservation

• Identification

• Egocentrism

• Object Permanence

The sensory systems of a newborn

• are all functional at birth, but vary in their degree of development.

• develop at approximately the same rate.

• are all functional at birth and then improve to adult levels within the first 6 months.

• are all at adult sensitivity levels within hours of birth.

Accommodation is the process of

• organising existing mental schemata into larger networks

• modifying existing schemata in light of new information

• understanding new information in light of existing schemata

• understanding the permanence of unseen objects

According to Piaget's theory, if you can form a complete mental representation of the route to the grocery store, you have displayed:

• concrete operational thought

• reversibility

• preoperational thought

• conservation of area