12/3 - Reg Cognitive Development

What is development? In general? And then, how do you think development relates to psychology? What do they have to do with each other? Why are we talking about development in psychology?

Which of the four debates/themes in developmental psychology is the most interesting to you? WHY?

A child calls his grandfather "papa." When he goes to school on the first day of school, his teacher is an older gentleman and he calls him "papa." His mother corrects him. At that point, his schema for "papa" becomes only his grandfather. This is an example of

• accommodation

• assimilation

A child goes to the zoo and sees a zebra for the first time, he calls it a horse. This is an example of

• accommodation

• assimilation

Most of what we deal with in cognitive development came from Jean ___________

This stage (age birth through 2) includes stranger anxiety and lack of or learning of object permanence

• senorimotor

• preoperational

• concrete operational

• formal operational

This stage (age 2 through 7) includes egocentrism and lack of understanding of conservation.

• senorimotor

• preoperational

• concrete operational

• formal operational

This stage (11 through adulthood) includes abstract reasoning, the ability to manipulate objects in our minds without seeing them, metacognition, learning through trial and error and being able to form a hypothesis and test it.

• senorimotor

• preoperational

• concrete operational

• formal operational

This stage (ages 7 to 11) includes mastery of conservation, logical thinking and deductive and inductive reasoning.

• senorimotor

• preoperational

• concrete operational

• formal operational

The ability to know that when an object is out of sight that is it not actually gone is _____________________________.