Piaget Cognitive Development

This cognitive process involves the adjustments of knowledge or information to new environmental demands. At this point, the child now adjusts his prior scheme about four-legged animals from dog to cows based on the defining features of the animals.

• Assimilation

• Adaptation

• Accommodation

• Organization

This process, according to Piaget, is the defining point to which the child shifts from one stage of thought to another. This occurs when the child comes to organize new and conflicting information to his or her old schemes

• Disequilibrium

• Adaptation

• Organization

• Equilibration

Which substage of sensorimotor is best described by the image?

• First habits, primary circular reactions

• Coordination of secondary circular reactions

• Simple reflexes

• Internalization of schemes

Which substage of sensorimotor is best described by the image?

• First habits, primary circular reactions

• Secondary circular reactions

• Simple reflexes

• Internalization of schemes

Which substage of sensorimotor is best described by the image?

• First habits, primary circular reactions

• Secondary circular reactions

• Simple reflexes

• Internalization of schemes

The image shows what limitation Piaget had identified during sensorimotor stage? PLEASE USE CAPITAL LETTERS ONLY

The child exhibits what type of symbolism? USE CAPITAL LETTERS

The image shows what limitations in the preoperational stage?

• Conservation of mass

• Conservation of volume

• Conservation of matter

• Conservation of length

This limit according to Piaget is characterized by selfish reasoning based only on the perspective of the child.

• Symbolism

• Undoing/Mentally reversing action

• Centration

• Egocentrism

This moral judgment or reasoning of the child connotes moral absolutism and sees that rules are fixed and, therefore, unchangeable.

• Moral heteronomy

• Moral autonomy