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

_______ 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

_________ is when focusing attention on one characteristics to the exclusion of all others.

• Egocentrism

• Animism

• Centration

• Intuitive Thought Substage