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ATTENTION STUDENT: If you are found to have plagiarized

any part of your PsychSim assignment, you will receive a 0 for the
assignment and may be formally reported to KPU. If you wish to
quote the source provided or any other webpage, you MUST cite
the source using APA formatting. To avoid plagiarism, write all
answers in your own words.

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https://libguides.kpu.ca/academicintegrity/plagiarism to study the
videos and tutorials available.

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COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT

Schemas

Watch the following video to answer the questions below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=xoAUMmZ0pzc

 What are schemas?

 Explain the difference between assimilation and accommodation.

 Suppose that a 15-month-old toddler has learned to call the four-legged house pet a
"doggie." What do you think would happen if the child sees a horse for the first time? Is
the child likely to call the horse a “horsie” or a “doggie” or a “doggie-horse” or some
other term? Write your best guess in the space below, and add a sentence explaining why
you think the child would use that term to refer to the horse.

Stages of Development

Watch the following video and read the following article to answer the questions below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhcgYgx7aAA&
https://www.medicinenet.com/piaget_stages/article.htm

 What are some characteristics of a child in the sensorimotor stage of development? What
is object permanence?

 What are some cognitive limitations of preschoolers? What is egocentrism?

 A child in the concrete operations stage can reason differently than can a child in the
sensorimotor stage. For example, if shown two identical balls of clay, one of which has
been rolled into a rope, an older child (in the concrete operational period) might decide
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that the ball and the rope both have the same amount of clay. What kinds of reasoning do
you think the older child might use to draw that conclusion?
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Example of Piaget’s Theory

Watch the following video to answer the question below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=gnArvcWaH6I

 What stage of Piaget’s theory is the child in the video? Explain your reasoning.

Watch the following video to answer the questions below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDJ0qJTLohM

 Based on Piaget’s theory, why do the two boys answer the woman differently when asked
what she can see from her side of the display?