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- 1AdaptationChildren adapting to the world through assimilation and accomodation
- 2AssimilationWhen children take materials into their mind from the environment, which may mean changing the evidence of their senses to make it fit.
- 3AccomodationThe difference made to a child's mind or concepts by the process of assimilation. You can't have assimilation without accommodation.
- 4ClassificationThe ability to group objects together on the basis of common features.
- 5Class InclusionThe understanding that some classes or sets of objects are also sub-sets of a larger class. E.g. there is a class of objects called dogs, also a class called animals. But all dogs are also animals, so the class of animals includes that of dogs.
- 6ConservationThe realization that objects or sets of objects remain the same even when they are changed or made to look different.
- 7DecentrationThe ability to move away from one system of classification to another one as appropriate.
- 8EgocentrismChildren only being able to view things from their own perspective.
- 9OperationThe process of working something out in your head. Children have to act, and try things out in the real world, to work things out.
- 10SchemaThe representation in the mind of a set of perceptions, ideas, and/or actions, which go together.
- 11StageA period in a child's development in which he or she is capable of understanding some things but not others.
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- Flashcards on Child Care, created by Bethan Newton on 03/03/2015.
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