M6L1 Issues M6L3 Cognitive

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

in Piaget's theory, the stage (from about 2 to about 6 or 7 years of age) during which a childlearns 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

temporary support that is tailored to a learner's needs and abilities and aimed at helping thelearner master the next task in a given learning process

• Scaffolding
• Conservation
• Accommodation
• Assimilation

the principle that properties such as mass, volume, and number remain the same despitechanges in the forms of objects

• accommodation
• egocentrism
• assimilation
• conservation

A person who has a better understanding or a higher skill level than the learner

• longitudinal study
• cross-sectional study
• conventional level
• More Knowledgeable Other

a study in which people of different ages are compared with one another

• cross-sectional study
• case study
• longitudinal study
• scaffolding