List and Describe Jean Piaget's Four Primary Stages of Cognitive

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Essay

List and describe Jean Piaget's four primary stages of cognitive development. Be sure to define and discuss the relevance of schemas, object permanence, and conservation.

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Definitions:

Operant Conditioning

An instructional process wherein the forcefulness of a behaviour is changed by the application of incentives or deterrents.

Conditioned Response

A learned response to a previously neutral stimulus that has become associated with an unconditioned stimulus.

Unconditioned Response

An automatic, innate reaction to a stimulus that occurs without prior learning or conditioning.

Conditioned Stimulus

A previously neutral stimulus that, after becoming associated with an unconditioned stimulus, now elicits a conditioned response.