JEAN PIAGETS THEORY OF COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT

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  1. 5. Children begin to engage in pretend play during this stage
  2. 6. Patterns of repeated behavior which allow children to explore and express developing ideas and thoughts through their play and exploration
  3. 8. Theorist famously known for his theory of cognitive development
  4. 10. The child's inability to see a situation from another person's point of view
  5. 11. Jean Piaget’s theory of cognitive development suggests that this changes as children grow
  6. 12. The tendency of the child to focus on only one aspect of a problem
  7. 15. The operational stage in which a child becomes concerned hypothetical, future, and ideological problems
  8. 16. Term referring to the mental processes involved in gaining knowledge and comprehension.
  9. 18. At this stage, children experience the world chiefly through senses and actions, such as looking, hearing, touching, mouthing, and grasping
  10. 19. Occurs when a child's schemas can deal with most new information through assimilation
Down
  1. 1. The type of function that utilizes the ability to use symbols to represent an object that is not present
  2. 2. This is the tendency for the child to think that non-living objects (such as toys) have life and feelings like a person
  3. 3. A set of principles on which the practice of an activity is based
  4. 4. The process of making orderly arrangements
  5. 7. the cognitive process of fitting new information into existing cognitive schemas, perceptions, and understanding
  6. 9. grouping of isolated behaviors and thoughts into a higher order system
  7. 12. The ability to focus on a single characteristic of objects in a set and group the objects according to that characteristic
  8. 13. The operational stage in which a child understands the concept of conservation
  9. 14. The cognitive process of revising existing cognitive schemas, perceptions, and understanding so that new information can be incorporated
  10. 17. logical thinking ability that allows a person to determine that a certain quantity will remain the same despite adjustment of the container, shape, or apparent size