Psych Test 2C: Jean Piaget

cognitive theory of development

framework for organizing your world (in your head)

Inside a file cabinet are files, which are your schemas

Reshuffling of files and updating: accommodation (modifying existing files or creating a new one) and assimilation (fitting info into an already existing file)

• The sensorimotor Stage
• Age: 0-2 years old: sense and motor allow schema to develop

They lack object permanence (if something leaves the room, they think it doesn't exist anymore)

• The Preoperational Stage
• Age: 2-7 years

• Different sets of issues
• Language develops and they can think symbolically

• Egocentric: one POV= theirs
• Animistic: give life-like qualities to inanimate objects

Child lacks reversibility and conversion; concepts not yet operational 

Think quarters example

• The Concrete Operational Stage
• Aes: 7-11

Think about only concrete things; don't have egocentrism or animism

abstract thinking is not yet present

Understand reversibility and conservation: recognizing that physical attributes remain unchanged, even when their outward appearance changes

• Formal Operational Stage
• Age: 11+

Abstract and hypothetical thinking