Erikson and Piaget Review

Theory of Cognitive Development based on a stage oriented process of cognition on a stage oriented process of cognition

• Kohlberg's Theory

• Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development

• Darwin's Theory

• Erikson's Theory

Child Develops a system for understanding a situation or a way of knowing. 

• Object Permanence

• Accommodation

• Assimilation

• Schema

Child develops new schema for new information. 

• Accommodation

• Schema

• Conservation

• Deductive Logic

By one year of age, a child realizes that the objects still exist although the object is no longer seen

• assimilation

• Animism

• object permanence

• schema

Child cannot take another point of view.

• Conservation

• Egocentric

• Animism

• Transductive Logic

Child thinks all objects have life.

• Object Permanence

• Conservation

• Animism

• Deductive logic

At what ages should a child be able to classifies objects into larger classes of objects. 

• 12 to life

• 6-12

• Birth-2

• 2-6

According to Piaget. Explain what stage of cognitive development you are currently in. 

• Preoperational

• Concrete

• Formal

• Sensorimotor

Cindy understands her world primarily by grasping and sucking easily available objects. Cindy is clearly in Piaget's ________ stage

• preoperational
• concrete operational
• sensorimotor
• formal operational

According to Piaget, children come to understand that the volume of a substance remains constant despite changes in its shape during the ________ stage.

• sensorimotor
• preoperational
• concrete operational
• formal operational