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Development of Cognitive Abilities
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- 1What is the key principle of Piaget?His theory of cognitive development consists of adaption through assimilation and accommodation to form new schemata
- 2Define Adaptioninvolves processing and using new info to allow us to adjust to changes in our environment
- 3Define AssimilationProcess of retrieving info and adding it to pre-existing mental idea about objects or experiences
- 4Define Accommodationprocess of changing pre-existing idea to fit new info
- 5Define Schemaa mental idea of what something is and understand to situations
- 6What are Piaget’s four stages of cognitive development?Sensorimotor
Preoperational
Concrete Operational
Formal Operational - 7What ages do each stage persist?S - Birth - 2
P - 2-7
C - 7-12
F - 12 + - 8What does sensorimotor stage involve?Learning to associate sensory input with motor actions
- 9What are concepts learnt? Describe eachObject permanence - understanding that objects exists though they may not be seen, heard or touched
Goal-directed behaviour - to perform and successfully accomplish actions due to purpose of mind - 10What does pre operational involve?Learning to use symbols such as words and letters, and using images in play
- 11What are concepts learnt? Describe eachEgocentrism - difficulty understanding other’s views
Animism - belief that everything that exists has a conscious
Transformation - understanding that something can change from one state to another
Centration - focus on one quality or feature of an object
Reversibility - ability to mentally follow a sequence of events of reasoning back to its starting point
Symbolic Thinking - the cognitive ability to use symbols such as words and pictures to represent objects that are not physically present - 12What does concrete operational involve?Performing mental operations on concrete objects, using reversibility and decentration
- 13What are concepts learnt? Describe eachConservation - understanding that certain properties of an object can remain the same even when its appearance changes
Classification - ability to organise objects or events in categories based on common features that set them apart from other categories - 14What does formal operational involve?Thinking and solving abstract problems in a logical manner
- 15What are concepts learnt? Describe eachAbstract thinking - way of thinking that does not rely on being able to visualise or experience in order to understand something
Logical Thinking - ability to solve problems systematically
Idealistic thinking - comparing oneself and others to a perfect standard and striving towards being like that ideal
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- Psychology 1/2 (Complexity of and Atypical Psychological Development ) Flashcards on Development of Cognitive Abilities, created by Magma Yonzon on 15/05/2017.
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