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WorksheetsPiaget intro SENSORIMOTOR
Total questions: 8
Worksheet time: 4mins
What is a schema?
A theme used to approach the world
A concept or framework for understanding the world
Your environment, where learning takes place
A horse
What age group does the sensorimotor stage cover?
0-2
2-7
7-11
11+
What is it called when a child knows something exists even when they can't see it?
Piaget's theory
Sensorimotor
Object permanence
logical thought
Why do infants regularly shake items?
They are developing object permemance
They are trying to get attention
They are experimenting with noise before synaptic pruning
They are learning and experimenting with the feedback loop between their senses and movement
Before Piaget it was thought that...
Children were lazy
Children thought in an abstract manner
Children were adults who knew less
children develop their intelligence from watching their parents
What is assimilation?
When children use existing schema to understand new information
When children panic when new information does not fit into their existing schema
What is accommodation?
A child having their physiological needs met
A concept or framework used to house understandings of the world
Understanding that the way that children think is qualitatively different to adults
When existing schema are adapted or new schema created to fit new information
What is an example of Equilibration?
When a child learns that a dog is a four legged furry animal
When a child calls a horse a dog
When a child realises that not all hairy four legged animals are dogs
When a child develops new schema to accommodate the new information about horses being different to dogs.
