Intro to Psychology assignment
Intro to Psychology assignment
- Looking at Piaget’s theory of cognitive development, fill out the chart below. What did Piaget say that a child could do (accomplishment) but could not do (limitation) in each stage? What did Erikson say was a crisis and resolution in that age?
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Age for Piaget |
Name of stage |
Accomplishments |
Limitations |
Erikson’s stage(s) |
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Birth – 2 years |
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2 – 6 years |
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6 – 11 years |
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12 and older |
- After you do that, describe (for each age group) an ideal toy or leisure activity. Describe why it would be a good toy/activity. You can describe this based on observations of children in your family (or on YouTube) or from looking at toys in stores.
- Write your essay in a word processing program and save the essay to your computer as a .doc file
