Early Childhood Cognitive Development

When a child realizes things still exist even though they cannot see them or touch them, (for instance their parents or a toy) this is called:

• Schemas

• Assimilation

• Scaffolding

• Object Permanence

Choose which age range this skill is developed:

Act out routines, stories, and social roles

• birth-8 months

• 9-17 months

• 18-36 months

• 3-5 years

When we change an existing schema, this is called?

• Assimilation

• Accommodation

How many stages are in Piaget's cognitive development theory?

• 1

• 6

• 3

• 4

Peek-a-boo works on children in what stage?

• Sensorimotor
• Preoperational
• Concrete Operational
• Formal Operational

The zone of proximal development is:

• The most a child can learn in a given day

• The gap between what the child can do on their own and what they cannot do without assistance

• What the child already knows

• The intelligence level the child is projected to be at given point

______________ believed the learning was a collaboration between the teacher and student.

• Piaget

• Vygotsky

Choose which age range this skill is developed:

Recognize difference between self and others

• birth-8 months

• 9-17 months

• 18-36 months

• 3-5 years

Sensorimotor, Preoperational, Concrete-Operational, and Formal Operations were developed by

• Jean Piaget

• Erik Erikson

• B.F. Skinner

• Lev Vygotsky

This theorist believed that children have absorbent minds, and that the role of the educator is to be an observer, not a lecturer.

• Maria Montessori

• Abraham Maslow

• Erik Erikson

• Howard Gardner