chapter 10.4

Cognitive Development: how we acquire the ability to learn think, communicate and remeber
Schema: the mental representation that we form of the world by organizing bits of information into knowledge
Assimilation: the process by which new info is placed into pre existing schemas categories or schema
Accommodation: the process of adjusting existing ways of thinking or schema to understand new information

Stage	Ages	Description/Summary (in your own words: do not cut and paste) Include definitions of key terms
Sensorimotor	0-2	Experience the world through senses and actions(looking hearin, touching, mouthing and grasping) object permanence - understanding that an object exists even when they cant be seen or touched
Preoperational	2-7	Child begins to use and symbolsMental imagery(child can draw images from their mind) Egocentric- inability to see another person's point a view Law of soncervation- quantity of substances remain the same despite changes in their shape or arrangementKids don't understand
Concrete Operational	7-12	Begin to learn law of conservation, multi dimensional thinking less egocentricCan do elementary arithmetic
Formal-Operational	12 and older	Abstract thoughtHypothetical situationsEx: geometry, algebra morality and religion

Why has Piaget’s theories been criticized?

The methods may have undesestimated the abilities of chidlren, some psychologists also think that several cognitive skill develop more continuously than piagets think. Rene beargoen showed that childrens do have object permanence younger than Piaget believed