Cognitive Vocabulary

Gathering information, organizing it, and then using it to further one's understanding and knowledge of their world.

• memory

• preoperational stage

• cognitive experience

• zone of proximal development

Piaget's first stage (from birth to about 2 years of age) during which infants know the world mostly in terms of their sensory impressions and motor activities.

• sensorimotor stage

• intentionality

• pretend play

• assisted learning

Piaget's theory, the process of taking new information into the mind/body by incorporating it into previously developed mental categories.

• cognitive experience

• assimilation

• accommodation

• object permanence

Piaget's theory, the process of taking new information into the mind/body in such a way as to readjust, refine, or expand on previous mental categories.

• zone of proximal development

• body wisdom

• assisted learning

• accommodation

The understanding that objects continue to exist even when out of view.

• pretend play

• object permanence

• assisted learning

• sensorimotor stage

In Piaget's theory, the 2nd stage (from about 2 to 6 or 7 years of age) during which a child learns to use language and the ability to pretend.

• memory

• preoperational stage

• intentionality

• zone of proximal development

  
  

The ability to store and retrieve information over time.

• zone of proximal development

• memory

• object permanence

• assisted learning

The skill to expect or know what will happen.

• accommodation

• assimilation

• preoperational stage

• ability to predict

Piaget suggests that children DO NOT receive knowledge through being taught passively but instead actively construct it.

• zone of proximal development

• assisted learning

• construct new knowledge

• memory

Engaging in an action deliberately in a way that is congruent with one's purpose or goal.

• memory

• intentionality

• object permanence

• assimilation