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the awareness that things continue to exist even when not perceived

• egocentrism
• assimilation
• conservation
• object permanence

in Piaget's theory, the stage of cognitive development (normally beginning about age 12)during which people begin to think logically about abstract concepts

• concrete operational stage
• longitudinal study
• formal operational stage
• preoperational stage

interpreting our new experiences in terms of our existing schemas

• Assimilation
• Conservation
• Accommodation
• Object Permanence

Man needs drug to save wife's life. Drug is too expensive so man steals it.

• Assimilation
• Theory Of Mind
• Heinz Dilemma
• Moral Development

in Piaget's theory, the stage (from about 2 to about 6 or 7 years of age) during which a child learns to use language but does not yet comprehend the mental operations of concrete logic

• sensorimotor stage

• formal operational stage

• conventional level

• preoperational stage

research in which the same people are restudied and retested over a long period

• longitudinal study
• cross-sectional study
• naturalistic observation
• case study

ability to reason about what other people know or believe

• object permanence
• conservation
• egocentrism
• theory of mind

centered on social relationships: it focuses on compliance with social duties and laws.

• longitudinal study
• preoperational level
• longitudinal study
• conventional level

Kohlberg's highest level of moral development, in which moral actions are judged on the basis of personal codes of ethics that are general and abstract and that may not agree with societal norms

• scaffolding

• later maturity

• postconventional level

• preoperational stage

earliest level of moral development; at this level, children are self-centered: they focus on getting rewards and avoiding punishment

• preconventional level

• conventional level

• postconventional level

• zone of proximal development