Psychology - Unit 5.1-5.2 - FAC #1 (Master Copy)

________ stage is the first of Piaget's stages, which lasts from birth to about 2 years of age, when infants construct an understanding of the world by coordinating sensory experiences (such as seeing and hearing) with motor actions.

• Sensorimotor Stage

• Equilibration

• Object Performance

• A-not-B error

______ is the second stage of Piaget's developmental stages, which lasts from about 2 to 7 years of age, when children begin to represent the world with words, images, and drawings.

• Symbolic Function Substage

• Preoperational Stage

• Egocentrism

• Animism

________ is Piaget's third stage, which lasts from approximately 7 to 11 years of age, when children can perform concrete operations, and logical reasoning replaces intuitive reasoning as long as the reasoning can be applied to specific or concrete examples.

• Conservation

• Concrete Operations Stage

• Intuitive Reasoning Thinking

• Horizontal Decalage

________ is Piaget's fourth and final stage, which occurs between the ages of 11 and 15. Think in more logical ways.

• Formal Operational stage

• Horizontal decalage

• Hypothetical - deductive reasoning

• Conservation

Knowing an object exists even when you cannot see it.

• schema

• assimilation

• object permanence

• representational thought

rooting reflex
infant's response in turning towards the source 

• rooting reflex

• grasping reflex

• gasping reflex

• punching reflex

Specialized study of how an individual’s physical, social, emotional, moral, and intellectual development occur in sequential order as the individual matures.

• Developmental psychology

• Maturation

• Schemas

• Socialization

Mental representations of the world; conceptual framework a person uses to make sense of the world 

• Schemas
• Surrogate
• Socialization 
• Maturation

The process of fitting objects and experiences into one’s schemas.

• Assimilation 

• Accommodation

• Conservation

• Schemas

The adjustment of one’s schemas to include newly observed events and experiences.

• Accommodation

• Assimilation

• Schemas

• Surrogate