Question

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1. according to piaget, a child is in the _______________ stage of cognitive development from approximately 2 years to 7 years of age.
2. _______________ is the tendency to attribute life to objects that are not alive.
3. the process by which a child absorbs the meaning of a new word after hearing it once or twice in conversation is called _______________.
4. _______________ is talking aloud to oneself with no intent to communicate with others.
5. _________________, in piagets terminology, is the ability to use mental representations (words) to which a child has attached meaning.
6. _________________ leads the child to focus on one aspect of a situation and neglect others, often leading to illogical conclusions.
7. _________________ is speech intended to be understood by a listener.
8. in piagets terminology, the awareness that two objects that are equal according to a certain measure remain equal in the face of perceptual alteration so long as nothing has been added to or taken away from either object is called _________________.
9. _________________ is a limitation of preoperational thinking consisting of failure to understand that an operation can go in two or more directions.
10. _________________ memory is long - term memory of specific experiences or events.

Explanation:

1. Piaget's cognitive development theory has four stages. The preoperational stage is from about 2 - 7 years old.
2. Animism is the tendency to attribute life to non - living objects.
3. Fast mapping is the process of learning a word's meaning quickly after hearing it once or twice.
4. Private speech is talking to oneself without intent to communicate with others.
5. Symbolic function, in Piaget's terms, is using mental representations (words) with attached meaning.
6. Centration causes a child to focus on one aspect and neglect others.
7. Socialized speech is intended for a listener.
8. Conservation is the awareness that two equal objects remain equal despite perceptual changes (if nothing is added or removed).
9. Irreversibility is a preoperational thinking limitation (failure to understand operations can be reversed).
10. Episodic memory is long - term memory of specific experiences or events.

Answer:

1. preoperational
2. Animism
3. fast mapping
4. Private speech
5. Symbolic function
6. Centration
7. Socialized speech
8. conservation
9. Irreversibility
10. Episodic