Erikson and Piaget Review

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Theory of Cognitive Development based on a stage oriented process of cognition

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Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development

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Child Develops a system for understanding a situation or a way of knowing.

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Schema

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Child develops new schema for new information.

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Accommodation

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By one year of age, a child realizes that the objects still exist although the object is no longer seen

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object permanence

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Child cannot take another point of view. Options: Conservation, Egocentric, Animism, Transductive Logic

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Egocentric

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Child thinks all objects have life.

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Animism

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At what ages should a child be able to classify objects into larger classes of objects?

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6-12

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According to Piaget, what stage of cognitive development are you currently in? Options: Preoperational, Concrete, Formal, Sensorimotor

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Formal

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Cindy understands her world primarily by grasping and sucking easily available objects. Cindy is clearly in Piaget's ________ stage

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sensorimotor

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According to Piaget, children come to understand that the volume of a substance remains constant despite changes in its shape during the ________ stage.

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concrete operational