Piaget Vocabulary

1. From ages 0-2 Children learn through their senses
3. Ages 2-6 Children learn through one problem at a time
6. Putting things in order
9. Belief that inanimate objects have human feelings and emotions
11. An involuntary and sudden response to stimulus
12. Tendency to focus on one aspect of a situation at a time
16. A state of cognitive balance with new information and existing knowledge
17. The recognition that physical properties remain the same regardless of outward change
18. A state of cognitive in-balance when encountering new information
20. When new information causes the brain to modify existing schema
21. The process for how we add information into the existing knowledge or schema

2. Children's thoughts and communications are typically about themselves
4. Ages 12 and up Mastery of thought
5. The ability to make one thing-a word or object stand for something other then itself
7. Realizing that an object exists independently of their perception of it
8. From ages 7-11 Children can reason deductively
10. The ability to categorize groups and detect relationships
13. The mental action or process of gaining knowledge through thought and senses
14. Reaction to stimulus
15. Category of knowledge, Units of knowledge that can be categorized
19. Anything that can trigger a physical or behavioral change