Unit 9 Developmental Psych Playing the Piaget Way

a child tells his friend, "I've got the best joke. What can leap higher than a tall building?" "anything, tall buildings can't leap!" the child's understanding of the two interpretations of the question indicate that he has reached the stage

Concrete Operational- Logic and multiple meanings

presented with a picture for cats and six dogs, a child is asked, which are there more of cats are animals? The child correctly responds animals

Concrete Operational- Logically

A child can explain that 3X2 represents three sets of two

Concrete Operational- Math Transformations

a child uses his understanding of molecular movement to predict how a gas would behave in different conditions

Formal Operational- Abstract, prediction, and algorithm

a child proposes that maybe the color that you call Red is the color that, if he looked with your brain, he would call Yellow

Formal operation- Abstract Logic

a child is asked to add three and two. Using his fingers, he counts and answers 5. Ask to then add 2 + 3 the child uses his fingers again to get the same answer.

Preoperational - Lacks mathematical transformations/reversibility

when given one cookie for snacks a child makes room or her mother breaks the cookie in half the blah blah blah..

Preoperational- Conservation

A child doesn't sneak a cookie when his mom is outside because he thinks she can see what he is doing

Preoperational- Egocentric

a child is given a cardboard box and pretends that it is a train

Preoperational- Pretend Play

upon overhearing his mother mentioned that it is difficult for women to make it to the top of a large corporation the child asks why she can't just take the elevator

Preoperational- Representing things with words

A mother takes a toy from a child and puts it under a blanket. The child does *not* look for it

Sensorimotor- Object permanence

upon seeing his Aunt Sally, who lives out of town, the child cries

Sensorimotor- Stranger Anxiety

a child is given a cardboard box and she explores it by opening and closing the flaps

Sensorimotor- senses

a child pushes a button on a toy and it makes a sound. He repeats his over and over and over and over

Sensorimotor- senses with sounds