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Psych 1100E
Lecture 26 (pg. 457-464)
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| What did Jean Piaget study? | The thought processed of children and how they change with age. |
| Jean Piaget's belief of cognitive development and children | Result from an interplay of maturation and experience. Viewed children as natural-born "Scientists" whoc actively explore and seek to udnerstand their world. |
| Schema | A "mental framework". An organized pattern of thoughts and actions about some aspect of the world. |
| Assimilation | In cognitive development, the process by which new experiences are incorporated into existing schemas. |
| Sensorimotor stage | In Piaget's theory, the stage of cognitive development in which children undertsand their world primarily through sensory experience and physical (motor) interaction with objects (birth - 2) |
| Object permanence | The recognition that an object continues to exist even when it can no longer be seen. |
| Preoperational stage | In Piaget's model, a stage of cognitive development in which children represent the world symbolically through words and mental images, but do not yet undertsand basic mental operations or rules (2-7) |
| Irreversibility | The inability to mentally reverse an action (beaker example, noticing the watter was poured from the same glass). |
| Centration | To focus (centre) on only one aspect of a situation (Beaker example, height of the liquid). |
| Egocentrism | Difficulty in viewing the world from someone else's perspective. For children, not in a selfish way - a mental limitation until concrete operational stage). |
| What was David Shaffer's study? | The "third-eye" inquiry, to test (in the concrete operational stage) children's difficulty with abstract reasoning. |
| Concrete operational | In Piaget's theory, the stage of cognitive development during which children can perform basic mental operations concerning problems that involve tangible (ie "concrete") objects and situations (7-12). |
| Formal operational stage | In Piaget's theory, a period in which individuals are able to think logically and systematically about both concrete and abstract problems, form hypotheses, and test them in a thoughtful way (7 onwards) |
| The term Lev Vygotsky introduced to explain the sociocultural impact on children's cognitive level | Zone of Proximal Development |
| Zone of Proximal development | The difference between what a child can do independently and what a child can do with assistance from adults or more advanced peers. |
| Theory of mind | A person's beliefs about the "mind" and the ability to undertsand other people's mental states; that is, we have theories about the contents of other peoples' minds (Think Susie's candy bar -> false belief tasks). |
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