Piaget: Cognitive Development

3. A cognitive framework or concept that helps organize and interpret information.
8. The understand, acquired in infancy, that objects exist independently of oneself.
10. Refers to young children’s difficulty in seeing the world from another’s viewpoint.
11. A Swiss psychologist who is best known for his theory on cognitive development.
13. Spans from birth to 2 years, a period during which the infant progresses from simple reflex actions to symbolic processing.
14. Stage that spans ages 2 to 7, is marked by the child’s use of symbols to represent objects and events.

1. Stage that spans from age 11 into adulthood, children and adolescents apply mental operations to abstract entities; they think hypothetically and reason deductively.
2. _____ reasoning is the ability to draw appropriate conclusions from facts.
4. A concept in which a child understand that changing the form of a substance or object does not change the overall amount, volume, or mass.
5. _____ thinking refers to the use of symbols (e.g., words and images) and mental representations of objects or events to represent the world.
6. Stage that spans from 7 to 11, children first use mental operations to solve problems and to reason.
7. When children credit inanimate objects with life and lifelike properties.
9. _______ thinking characterized by the ability to use concepts and to make and understand generalizations, such as of the properties or pattern shared by a variety of specific items or events.
12. Narrowly focused thinking on only one characteristic of an object or experience during the preoperational stage.