PSYC 2700 Exam 2 Prep Questions With Solved Solutions.
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Piaget - Answer Framed the questions and provided (precursors to) many methods we use in developmental psychology today
Most influential developmentalist of 20th century
Although many details of his theory have been shown to not quite right, his theory still gives excellent sense of how deve...
PSYC 2700 Exam 2 Prep Questions With
Solved Solutions.
Piaget - Answer Framed the questions and provided (precursors to) many methods we use in
developmental psychology today
Most influential developmentalist of 20th century
Although many details of his theory have been shown to not quite right, his theory still gives excellent
sense of how development progresses and what children are like at different ages
Carried out most of his observations with his kids
Piaget's fundamental question: - Answer What makes a human intellect?
-How do you take sensations and make them into concepts?
Piaget's theory: Basic processes - Answer Child understands the world with schemas (psychological
structures that organize experience; mental categories of related events, objects, knowledge),
Schemas change constantly
Ex - forming the schema "butterfly"
3 Processes that propel development - Answer assimilation, accommodation, equilibration
assimilation - Answer Assimilation: taking in information compatible with what is already known,
incorporating into existing schemas.
Process by which people incorporate information into concepts they already understand
Ex - guy with bald top of head and frizzy hair on sides looks like a clown
,Accommodation - Answer Accommodation: changing existing knowledge based on new knowledge;
modifying schemas based on experience.
The boy could listen to his dad and accomodate his clown concept, realizing that not all bald men are
clowns
Equilibration: - Answer Equilibration: balancing assimilation and accommodation to create stable
understanding; reorganizing schemas to achieve balance.
3 steps: first the child is satisfied with their understanding, then new information lets them know that
their understanding is inadequate, finally they develop a new understanding using their new information
Stages of Cognitive development - Answer discontinuous, invariant sequence,Hierarchical, Domain-
general (broad applicability)
Discontinuous - Answer Pine tree: developmental continuity (small tree-->bigger tree)
Invariant sequence - Answer One stage occurs after other and sequence can't be mixed up
Hierarchical - Answer ...
Domain-general (broad applicability) - Answer The type of thinking characteristic of each stage
influences children's thinking across diverse topics and contexts
Limited to concrete situations; not abstract or hypothetical
Ex - fail to imagine that the faster motion might be related to the length of the string or the height from
which the string was dropped, rather than the weight of the object
Formal operational (12 years and beyond) - Answer Able to think abstractly and hypothetically
Able to reason systematically about all possible outcomes
Ex - mixing different liquids to make blue liquid
Not attained universally (unlike other 3 stages)
substages of sensorimotor
0-1 months - Answer Modification of reflexes
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