Developmental Cascade Model
static thought
piagets theory, the thought characteristic of the pre operational period that is fixed on end states rather than on the changes that transform one state into another
accommodation
According to Piaget, the process to adapt to new experiences
reversibility
Any adaptation that takes place as a consequence of training will be reversed when you stop training
schemes
In Piaget's theory, actions or mental representations that organize knowledge.
imaginary companions
Invisible companions that children create and treat as if they are very real
equilibration
Piaget's term for the tendency to seek a stable balance among cognitive elements; achieved through a balance between assimilation and accommodation.
adaption
Process of adjusting to the environment
transitivity
The ability to infer a relationship between two objects and to compare and arrange them. According to Piaget, concrete operational children have this skill. If A=B and B=C, then A=C
perceptual salience
The seeming importance of information that is the focus of people's attention
organization
When children systematically combine existing schemes into new and more complex ones
Developmental Cascade Model
connections across domains over time
egocentrism
in Piaget's theory, the preoperational child's difficulty taking another's point of view
centration
in Piaget's theory, the tendency of a young child to focus only on one feature of an object while ignoring other relevant features
assimilation
interpreting the new in terms of the existing
seriation
smallest to largest
conservation
that properties such as mass, volume, and number remain the same despite changes in the forms of objects.
symbolic capacity
the ability to use words, gestures and images represent objects
A not B error
the tendency to reach for a hidden object where it was last found rather than in the new location where it was last hidden
object permanence
understanding that objects continue to exist