Chapter 6 Early Childhood Development

_______ are actions or mental representations that organize knowledge.

• Assimilation

• Accommodation

• Organization

• Schemes

______ are Piagetian concepts of the incorporation of new information into existing knowledge.

• Assimilation

• Accomodation

• Organization

• Schemes

__________ is Piagetian concept of adjusting schemes to fit new information and experiences.

• Schemes

• Assimilation

• Accommodation

• Organization

______ is Piaget's concept of grouping isolated behaviors into a higher-order, more smoothly functioning cognitive system; the grouping or arranging of items into categories.

• Schemes

• Organization

• Accomodation

• Assimilation

________ stage is the first of Piaget's stages, which lasts from birth to about 2 years of age, when infants construct and understanding of the world by coordinating sensory experiences (such as seeing and hearing) with motoric actions

• Sensorimotor Stage

• Equilibration

• Object Performance

• A-not-B error

_______ occurs when infants make the mistake of selecting the familiar hiding place (A) to locate an object, rather than looking in the new hiding place (B) as they progress into substage 4 in Piaget's

• A-not-B error

• object performance

• Core knowledge approach

• Operations

_______ states that infants are born with domain-specific innate knowledge systems, such as those involving space, number sense, object performance, and language.

• A-not-B error

• Core Knowledge Approach

• Operations

• Preoperational Stage

__________ is the internalized actions that allow children to do mentally what before they had done only by physically. reversible mental actions

• Operations

• Preoperational Stage

• sumbolic function substage

• egocentrism

______ is the second stage Piaget's developmental stage, which lasts from about 2 to 7 years of age, when children begin to represent the world with words, images, and drawings.

• Symbolic Function Substage

• Preoperational Stage

• egocentrism

• Animism

______ is an important feature of preoperational thought: the inability to distinguish between one's own and someone else's perspective.

• Animism

• Intuitive thought substage

• Centration

• Egocentrism