CD EXAM 2 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
(VERIFIED AND UPDATED)
Piaget's Theory - ANS development is constructive & children play active role
piaget's key ideas about children - ANS ***child as scientist***
children:
- are active learners
- learn through discovery
- are intrinsically motived (ex to learn speech for social interaction)
2 ways nature and nurture interact - ANS 1) adaptation:
responding to demands of enviro to meet one's goals
ex: army crawling before true crawling is learned
2) organization:
tendency to integrate observations into cohearant knowlege
3 processes that propel devel aka sources of continuity - ANS assimilation
accommodation
equilibration
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,assimilation - ANS INCORPORATING new information into existing schemas (knowledge about
world)
ex: dropping diff things to see diffs
accommodation - ANS CHANGING existing schemas to better fit new observ
ex: diff of dropping solid vs liquid
equilibration - ANS balancing assimilation & accommodation
sources of discontinuity - ANS argues develop is discontinuous--occurs in defined hierarchical
stages
central properties of piaget's stages - ANS qualitative change - obvious B change
broad applicability - motor, cog., social, emot.
brief transitions -
invariant sequence - stages always happen in same order
piaget stage order - ANS sensorimotor
preoperational
concrete operational
formal operational
sensorimotor stage - ANS birth - 24 mo
learning through SENSES
tasks they learn:
- object permanence
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, - A-not-B error: looking for object in its initial location (A) despite seeing it moved to B location
preoperational - ANS 2-7 yrs
thinking internally
- symbolic representation: use of one object to stand for another (ex: imaginary play)
- egocentrism: perceiving things only from their POV (ex: 3 mountain task)
- centration: tendency to focus on one salient aspect and ignore all others (ex: only thinking of
weight and not distance when balancing scale)
- conservation: amount does not change when appearance changes (ex: number of items
doesn't increase when they are more spread out)
concrete operational - ANS 7-12 yrs
develop of reasoning
still struggle w abstract
tasks:
- pendulum: inability to come to correct conclusion bc lack of systematic experiment.
-seriation: can place items in a serious if physically present but not if abstract
formal operational - ANS 12+ yrs
@2026/2027 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED.
(VERIFIED AND UPDATED)
Piaget's Theory - ANS development is constructive & children play active role
piaget's key ideas about children - ANS ***child as scientist***
children:
- are active learners
- learn through discovery
- are intrinsically motived (ex to learn speech for social interaction)
2 ways nature and nurture interact - ANS 1) adaptation:
responding to demands of enviro to meet one's goals
ex: army crawling before true crawling is learned
2) organization:
tendency to integrate observations into cohearant knowlege
3 processes that propel devel aka sources of continuity - ANS assimilation
accommodation
equilibration
@2026/2027 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED.
,assimilation - ANS INCORPORATING new information into existing schemas (knowledge about
world)
ex: dropping diff things to see diffs
accommodation - ANS CHANGING existing schemas to better fit new observ
ex: diff of dropping solid vs liquid
equilibration - ANS balancing assimilation & accommodation
sources of discontinuity - ANS argues develop is discontinuous--occurs in defined hierarchical
stages
central properties of piaget's stages - ANS qualitative change - obvious B change
broad applicability - motor, cog., social, emot.
brief transitions -
invariant sequence - stages always happen in same order
piaget stage order - ANS sensorimotor
preoperational
concrete operational
formal operational
sensorimotor stage - ANS birth - 24 mo
learning through SENSES
tasks they learn:
- object permanence
@2026/2027 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED.
, - A-not-B error: looking for object in its initial location (A) despite seeing it moved to B location
preoperational - ANS 2-7 yrs
thinking internally
- symbolic representation: use of one object to stand for another (ex: imaginary play)
- egocentrism: perceiving things only from their POV (ex: 3 mountain task)
- centration: tendency to focus on one salient aspect and ignore all others (ex: only thinking of
weight and not distance when balancing scale)
- conservation: amount does not change when appearance changes (ex: number of items
doesn't increase when they are more spread out)
concrete operational - ANS 7-12 yrs
develop of reasoning
still struggle w abstract
tasks:
- pendulum: inability to come to correct conclusion bc lack of systematic experiment.
-seriation: can place items in a serious if physically present but not if abstract
formal operational - ANS 12+ yrs
@2026/2027 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED.
