Developmental Psychology: Cognitive Development in Primary Education Quiz 1

1. Conceptos claves en el desarrollo cognitivo primitive education:

   • Esquemas: repetible y generalizable actions, evolve from reflexes to mental operations.
   • Adaptación: entrance of new information in the cognitive structure, allowing adjustment to the environment.
   • Asimilación: new experiences or knowledge are incorporated into existing behavioral patterns.
   • Acomodación: modification of the organization in response to environmental demands.

2. Stages of Development according to Piaget: 2.1. Sensorimotor Stage (0-2 years):

   • Rapid cognitive growth with six stages.
   • Infants explore the world through trial and error, relying on senses and actions.
   • Reflexive reactions, including seeking pleasure and social connections.

   2.2. Preoperational Stage (2-7 years):

   • Symbolic function promotes imaginative play, drawing, imitation, and language.
   • Egocentrism: limited perspective, focusing only on self.
   • Preoperational thinking: seeking pleasure rather than truth.
   • Lack of logical reasoning and reasoning limitations.
   • Difficulty with conservation tasks.

3. Key stages in Piaget's development theory:

   • Perceptual development: visual accommodation, sensitivity to contrast, and perception of depth in infants.

4. Transition from preoperational to operational thinking:

   • Decentration: considering multiple perspectives.
   • Inferred reality: understanding reality beyond appearances.
   • Reversibility: performing actions in reverse.
   • Transformations: understanding the underlying changes.

5. Limitations of Piaget's theory:

   • Horizontal discrepancies: same subject may not solve similar tasks.
   • Domain-specific applications: each task's resolution depends on its content.
   • Universal applicability: studies across cultures.

Test your knowledge of key concepts related to cognitive development in primary education. Topics include schemas, adaptation, and assimilation.