Peril Of Obedience

Peril Of Obedience

PY 215:   Child Psychology
Exam III (6-9) Study Guide

Chapter 7
Piaget and Vygotsky
Learning Objectives:
 
  1.     Describe the components of thought that make up cognition.
   
  2.     Define what a cognitive structure is and elaborate on the role of organization in their development.
   
  3.     Explain what adaptation is, describe the three processes of adaptation that are essential for cognitive change, and explain how these processes work.
   
  4.     Name the four stages of cognitive development that Piaget proposed and explain how children’s thinking changes as they go through these four stages.
   
  5.     Explain what a scheme is and what role it plays in cognitive development according to Piaget.
   
  6.     Describe how mental representations contribute to cognitive development according to Piaget.
   
  7.     Define the concept of object permanence and talk about how and when infants grasp this concept.
   
  8.     Describe how preoperational thinking is different than cognitive functioning during the sensorimotor stage.
 
  9.     Name two significant limitations of preoperational thinking.
 
  10.  Describe the experiments Piaget used to test the strengths and limitations of young children’s thinking and explain how contemporary studies have added to our knowledge of Piaget’s classic work on cognitive development.
 
  11.  Define operations and explain how operational thinking is different from preoperational thinking. Contrast preoperational and concrete operational children on their performances when given problems of conservation and classification.
 
  12.  Discuss evidence that suggests that Piaget underestimated the operational competence of preschool-age children on tasks involved perspective taking and conservation.
 
  13.  Contrast the thinking of children in the stages of formal operations and concrete operations.
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