The ability to understand that objects still exist even when they are out of sight
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At what age can children understand object permanence?
around 8 months old
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What happens in the sensorimotor stage?
Focus in physical sensations and developing some co-ordination. Understands people are separate objects and has some basic language.
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What happens in the pre-operational stage?
Toddler is more mobile and can use language but lacks reasoning ability
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What is meant by conservation and what did Piaget do to show this?
Conservation is the ability to understand that quantity remains the same even when the appearance of an object change. Piaget did a coin study and glass study to show this s
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What is meant by egocentrism and how did Piaget show this?
Egocentrism means only being able to see the world from your own point of view. Piaget performed the three mountains task to show this
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What is meant by class inclusion and how was this shown?
class inclusion is the ability to understand classififcation and that objects fall into separate categories. Pictures of animals study
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What happens in the concrete operations stage?
From 7, most children have improved reasoning abilities but only to objets that they can see. They still struggle to imagine things they cannot see
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What happens in the formal operations stage?
children can form an argument and not become distracted by its content
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What is a syllogism, give an example
when conclusions are drawn from two pieces of information. E.g all yellow cats have two heads, i have a yellow cat called charlie how many heads does it have?
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Piaget's own research can be used to support what?
Object permanence, conservation, class inclusion and egocentrism
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Who provides contradictory evidence for conservation
McGarrigle and Donaldson - used a naughty teddy to knock count and 72% of 4-6 correctly said same, so it may have been the questioning that influenced the response. Piaget may have underestimated kids
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Who provides contradictory evidence for class inclusion?
Siegler et al - each given a definition but the more comprehensive one saw greater improvements in the task
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Who provides contradictory evidence for egocentrism?
Hughes, had to hide a doll from policeman. 90% 3.5 hid from 1, 90% of 4.5 hid from 2. So Piaget may have underestimated child's abilities
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Why has Piaget been critiqued for domain general?
suggests intellectual development is a single process and all aspects develop at once. However, ASD kids egocentric but can reason
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Was Piaget rigid in his believes?
No, he embraced critiqued and noticed that you could enter one period before leaving another. He later called his stages spirals of development
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What is object permanence?
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The ability to understand that objects still exist even when they are out of sight
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