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