Piaget and Kohlberg Theories - Intro to Psych

What is the sensorimotor phase (Piaget's Stages) ?

• This where you learn through senses and actions; no object permanence at first.

• Learning through rules and Symbolic thinking/pretend play

• logical thinking; recognizing concrete events/analogies

• abstract thinking

Answer explanation

think about a baby and how the first things they do is learn how to crawl, and after that they touch anything they can get a hold of.

What age range is post conventional morality?

• before 9

• early adolescence

• adolescence and beyond

What age range is conventional morality?

• before 9

• early adolescence

• adolescence and beyond

What age range is preconventional morality?

• before age 9

• early adolescence

• Adolescence and beyond

What is Conventional morality?

• Uphold laws and rules to gain social approval or maintain social order

• Self-interest; obey rules to avoid punishment or gain concrete rewards

• Actions reflect belief in basic rights and self-defined ethical principles

What is Postconventional morality?

• Actions reflect belief in basic rights and self-defined ethical principles

• Uphold laws and rules to gain social approval or maintain social order

• Self-interest; obey rules to avoid punishment or gain concrete rewards

What is the Formal Operational stage of thinking?

• Reasoning with the use of abstract logic; moral reasoning

• Thinking logically about more permanent events/analogies; conversation, Mathematical transformations

• learning through the senses and actions; object permeance; stranger anxiety

• Pretend play egocentrism; represent things w/ words & images; using intuition rather than logiv.

Answer explanation

Think of this stage as the college stage of thinking; you begin relearning everything around you in a new and exciting

What age frame is Concrete Operational thinking?

• Birth - 2 years old.

• 2 - 6/7 years old.

• 6/7 - 11 years old.

• +12 years old.

What is Preconventional morality?

• Self-interest; obey rules to avoid punishment or gain concrete rewards

• Uphold laws and rules to gain social approval or maintain order

• Actions reflect belief in basic rights and self-defined ethical principles.

Answer explanation

Think of this as the bare minimum morals.

What is the Concrete operational stage?

• Logical thinking; understands concrete events/analogies, can preform mathematical transformations/ conversate.

• Object permanence , stranger anxiety/ explores the world through touch.

• Play pretend; represents things through words and images; using intuition over logic.

• reasoning abstractly; mature moral reasoning.

Answer explanation

Think about the foundation of a house; it's usually made out of CONCRETE. In this case, logic is the house and the foundation is made out of a different type of concrete: math/analogies/events