Crash Course Psychology Worksheet | 18 - The Growth of Knowledge

Define cognitive development, schemas, assimilation, accommodation, and cognitive equilibrium

Describe Piaget's sensorimotor, preoperational, and concrete operational stages with their age ranges and hallmarks

Explain how egocentrism, animism, and centration shape preoperational thinking

Evaluate criticisms of Piaget's model and contrast it with Vygotsky's social-interaction perspective

Preview the fifteen questions before pressing play so students listen for the stage names and vocabulary as the episode runs

Pause after the preoperational segment — six of the questions (9 through 13) cluster there, the densest stretch of the sheet

Assign it as sub-plan or independent work: the episode link is embedded in the document and the questions follow the video's order

Because both files are editable Word documents, trim or reword questions to fit a shorter class period before printing

Psychology vocabulary — students define schemas, object permanence, egocentrism, animism, centration, and theory of mind from the episode.

Stage-theory comprehension — questions require the age spans and distinguishing features of Piaget's first three stages.

Note-taking from video — fifteen ordered questions structure active listening across the episode.

Theory evaluation — the final question asks how Piaget's model has been criticized and what Vygotsky offers instead.