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psychology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are schemes? | Plans of action based on previous experiences to be used in similar circumstances. |
| What is organization? | The primary way in which human knowledge develops, according to Piaget, i though the application of ________. |
| How did Piaget use the term assimilation? | Used to refer to the mental process by which new objects, events, experiences, and information are incorporated into existing schemes. |
| What is object permanence? | The realization that objects continue o exist even when they are out of sight(peek- a boo) |
| Sensorimotor stage | Infants gain an understanding of the world through senses and their motor activities. (birth to 2 years) |
| Prepoperational Stage | Development of schemes for symbolic representation is the theme. occurs between 2-6 |
| What is centration? | The tendency to focus on only one dimension of a stimulus. |
| Concrete Operations stage | Children gradually construct schemes that allow them to decenter their thinking-that is, to attend to 2 or more dimensions of a stimulus at the same time. |
| What are Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development? | Sensorimotor stage(birth-2) Preoperational stage(2-6) Concrete Operations Stage 6-12 Formal Operations Stage (11-12) |