Piaget's Toy Connection Assignment

One-Word Speech

• Age: 1 year
• Babies speaking one words such as "mama" or "dada"
• Able to understand more
• Infants begin to comprehend language twice as fast as they produce it

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Formal Operations

• Ages: 11 and older
• Manipulate things in their head
• Think in an abstract manner
• Combine & classify items in sophisticated way
• Perform mathematical calculation & think creatively

http://www.amazon.com/LEGO-Harry-Potter-Hogwarts-Castle/dp/B003H9NBTI

Concrete Operations

• Ages: 7-11 years
• Major turning points in a child's cognitive development
• Beginning of logical or operational thought
• Only applies logic to physical objects
• Becomes less egocentric
• Conservation: The understanding that something stays the same in quantity even though its appearance changes.

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Babbling

Preoperational Stage

• Ages: 0-4 Months
• Babies start to make repetitive sounds
• First stage of language development
• Examples: "mamama" or "dadada"

• Ages: 2-7 years
• Learns language and represents objects by images and words
• Engages in symbolic play
• Thinking is still mainly egocentric and has difficulty taking viewpoints of others
• Classifies object by single feature
• Children display animism during this stage which is the belief that animals have human feelings and intentions
• Egocentrism: child's inability to see a situation from another person's point of view.

http://www.whattoexpect.com/toddler/photo-gallery/getting-ready-for-doctor-checkups.aspx

Piaget's Sensorimotor

• Ages: Birth - 2 years
• Differentiates themselves from objects
• Begins to act intentionally
• Achieves object performance: realizes things continue to exist even when no longer present to the sense
• Children learn mostly through trial and error
• One of the earliest theories of language development provided by B.F. Skinner but later overrun by Noah Chomsky

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Whole-Sentence Speech

• Age: 2 years old
• Children learn to make short, multi-word sentences that include a subject & predicates
• Ex: "Daddy is nice" and "Want some candy"

Telegraphic Speech

• 18 Months
• Now able to put two words together to form a more complex sentence
• Usually includes a noun or verb
• Sounds like a telegram

References

• http://www.simplypsychology.org/
• http://www.simplypsychology.org/language.html
• www.toysrus.com/

Piaget's Toy Connection

Toni Anderson

Psychology - Honors Spring 2015