Chapter 10 Infancy and Childhood Section 4

Stage of cognitive development when children begin to communicate with words and symbols

• preoperational stage

• formal operational stage

• concrete operational stage

• sensory motor stage

Stage of cognitive development when children learn to coordinate vision with touch

• preoperational stage

• formal operational stage

• concrete operational stage

• sensory motor stage

Process by which new information is placed in categories that already exist

• assimilation

• object permanance

• postconventional moral reasoning

• accomodation

Understanding that an object exists even when it cannot be seen or touched

• assimilation

• object permanance

• postconventional moral reasoning

• accomodation

Level of moral reasoning in which moral judgements reflect one's personal values

• assimilation

• object permanance

• postconventional moral reasoning

• accomodation

Change brought about because of new information

• assimilation

• object permanance

• postconventional moral reasoning

• accomodation

Level of moral reasoning in which moral judgements reflect common standards

• conventional moral reasoning

• concrete operational stage

• postconventional moral reasoning

• preoperational stage

Stage of cognitive development when children begin to show signs of adult thinking

• conventional moral reasoning

• concrete operational stage

• postconventional moral reasoning

• preoperational stage

____________________________ was a stage theorist who studied cognitive development in children.

• Piaget or Kohlberg

• Skinner or Freud

• Lorenz or Piaget

• Kohlberg or Chomsky

Based on children's answers on intelligence tests, jean Piaget theorized that

• boys are mentally superior to girls

• girls are mentally superior to boys

• children's thinking develops in a sequence of stages

• children's thinking develops continuously