Core Theory of Cognative Development - Psychology
Core theory of cognative development in psychology
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?- Created by: Rhys Hudson
- Created on: 15-02-13 09:30
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- Cognitive Development
- Sensori-motor Stage 0-2
- Body Schema: Infant recgonises it exists (can recgonise a photo/mirror)
- Motor Co-ordination: Learns to move hand to mouth
- Object Permanence: knows an object/person still exists even if cannot be seen
- Pre Operational Stage 2-7
- Animism: Treating objects like living things
- Reversibility: Unable to work backwards in their thinking
- Egocentrism: Seeing and thinking the world only from one perspective
- 3 Mountains Experiment: Test to see whether child can identify different points of view. Centration and decentre (can focus on more than one thing)
- Concrete Operational Stage 7-11
- Linguistic Humour: Starts understanding and enjoying word games and double meanings
- Seriation: Ability to put things in rank order
- Conservation: Know the properties of certain things stay the same even if it appears to change
- Formal Operational Stage 11+
- Develop life long ability to think and solve sophisticated problems. Abstract, Hypothetical thinking
- Sensori-motor Stage 0-2
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