Ch. 10- Section 4- Piaget- child’s cognitive development Assimilation- process- new information- placed into categories that already exist- Ex. collie, Great Dane- “doggie” Accommodation- change brought about because of new information
Piaget’s stages of development Sensorimotor- relationship between movements and results one senses- object permanence- objects exist when not seen Preoperational- use words- egocentrism- unable to see another person’s point of view Concrete-Operational- adult thinking- two dimensional thinking Formal-Operational- think abstractly
Kohlberg- child’s cognitive development Preconventional Level- what is “good”? Conventional Level- family, religion, society Postconventional Level- personal values