Lifespan Development Exam 2 Study Guide Questions & ANSWERS(GRADED A)
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Lifespan Development
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Lifespan Development
How did Piaget view the child's role in development/learning? - ANSWER - mistakes children make in their thinking are usually meaningful because the mistakes reflect the nature of their thought processes at their current stage of development
- as children develop, the structure of their thinking c...
Lifespan Development Exam 2 Study Guide
Questions & ANSWERS(GRADED A)
How did Piaget view the child's role in development/learning? - ANSWER - mistakes children make in
their thinking are usually meaningful because the mistakes reflect the nature of their thought processes
at their current stage of development
- as children develop, the structure of their thinking changes. and these new modes of thought are based
on the earlier structures.
Piaget's basic principles - ANSWER Schema
Assimilation
Accommodation
Equilibrium
Disequilibrium
Schema - ANSWER actions or mental representations that organize knowledge
Assimilation - ANSWER interpreting our new experiences in terms of our existing schemas
Accommodation - ANSWER adapting our current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new
information
Equilibrium - ANSWER steady state in which children assimilate more than they accommodate
Disequilibrium - ANSWER State of rapid cognitive change in which children shift from assimilation to
accommodation
How do actions change during the sensorimotor stage? - ANSWER Building schemes through sensory and
motor exploration (birth - two years)
- from reflexes to goal directed activity
, - from the body to the outside world
- development of object permanence
- from action to mental representation
What is object permanence? What is the "A not B error"? - ANSWER understanding that objects
continue to exist even when they cannot directly be seen, heard, or touched
The A-Not-B error, also known as a perseverative error, is an error in the mental perception of objects
seen in infants before the age of one year. ... This illustrates a child's ability to mentally represent objects
in their mind. This ability is called object permanence.
What are some behaviors that reflect the beginnings of mental representation? - ANSWER deferred
imitation, make-believe
What is the major development that signals the start of the Pre-oportional Stage? - ANSWER children
begin to represent the world with words, images, and drawings
Animistic Thinking - ANSWER belief that inanimate objects have lifelike qualities
Magical Thinking - ANSWER assigning human purposes to physical events
Egocentrism - ANSWER the heightened self-consciousness of adolescents, which is reflected in
adolescents' beliefs that others are as interested in them as they are in themselves, and sense of
personal uniqueness and invincibility
What is a conservation task? - ANSWER The awareness that altering the appearance of an object or a
substance does not change its basic properties (clay, water)
What is a perspective taking task? - ANSWER being able to distinguish ones own perspective from
another (volcano video)
How do preoperational children perform on conservation task? How does this reflect centration? How
does this reflect irreversibility? - ANSWER focusing on a salient aspect of an event at the expense of
other relevant features
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