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  • In the Sensorimotor stage, infants use their senses and motor skills to understand the world
  • What are schemas in Piaget's theory?
    Mental representations
  • Match the stage of cognitive development with its age range:
    Sensorimotor ↔️ Birth to 2 years
    Preoperational ↔️ 2 to 7 years
    Concrete Operational ↔️ 7 to 11 years
    Formal Operational ↔️ 11 years to adulthood
  • When a child learns that poodles have curly hair, they update their schema for dogs through the process of accommodation
  • The process of modifying existing schemas to fit new information is called accommodation
  • What do infants use to understand the world during the sensorimotor stage?
    Senses and motor skills
  • At what stage of Piaget's theory can individuals think abstractly and hypothetically?
    Formal Operational
  • In the Preoperational stage, children use symbolic thinking but lack logical reasoning.

    True
  • Order the processes that drive cognitive development in Piaget's theory:
    1️⃣ Assimilation
    2️⃣ Accommodation
  • Schemas are static structures that never change.
    False
  • Accommodation occurs when new information cannot be assimilated into existing schemas.

    True
  • What is the process of incorporating new information into existing schemas called?
    Assimilation
  • Match the stage of Piaget's theory with its age range:
    Sensorimotor ↔️ Birth to 2 years
    Preoperational ↔️ 2 to 7 years
    Concrete Operational ↔️ 7 to 11 years
    Formal Operational ↔️ 11 years to adulthood
  • Children in the concrete operational stage can logically reason about concrete objects and events.
  • Schemas are internal mental models representing objects, events, and ideas.

    True
  • What role does assimilation play in cognitive development according to Piaget's theory?
    Expands understanding
  • What is the term for the process of balancing assimilation and accommodation to achieve cognitive equilibrium?
    Equilibration
  • Match the stage with its key characteristic:
    Sensorimotor ↔️ Use of senses and motor skills
    Preoperational ↔️ Symbolic thinking but no logic
    Concrete Operational ↔️ Logical reasoning about concrete events
    Formal Operational ↔️ Abstract, hypothetical thinking
  • What are schemas constantly updated through?
    Assimilation and accommodation
  • Accommodation involves modifying existing schemas to incorporate new information that cannot be assimilated.

    True
  • Equilibration is a key driver of cognitive development as it resolves disequilibrium by adapting mental representations.

    True
  • Each stage of Piaget's theory builds upon the previous one through assimilation and accommodation.

    True
  • What makes schemas dynamic structures according to Piaget's theory?
    Assimilation and accommodation
  • Schemas are static structures that never change.
    False
  • Assimilation helps expand our understanding by relating new experiences to existing knowledge.

    True
  • Steps involved in the equilibration process
    1️⃣ Encounter new information
    2️⃣ Experience disequilibrium
    3️⃣ Accommodate schemas
    4️⃣ Restore equilibrium
  • Children progress through Piaget's stages by assimilating new information and accommodating existing schemas.

    True
  • In the Concrete Operational stage, children can logically reason about concrete objects and events
  • What is egocentrism in Piaget's theory?
    Inability to see others' perspectives
  • Schemas act as mental representations or frameworks
  • Schemas are internal mental models representing objects, events, and ideas
  • In assimilation, new information is integrated into pre-existing schemas
  • Accommodation involves modifying existing schemas to fit new information
  • What is the purpose of equilibration in schema theory?
    Achieve cognitive equilibrium
  • How many stages are there in Piaget's theory of cognitive development?
    Four
  • Children who grasp conservation understand that shape changes do not affect the amount of an object.

    True
  • Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development describes how children's thinking and reasoning abilities develop through a series of stages
  • Individuals in the Formal Operational stage can think abstractly, hypothetically, and logically.

    True
  • Schemas are updated through assimilation and accommodation
  • What is assimilation in Piaget's theory?
    Incorporating new information