Piaget's four stages of development
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- Piaget's four stages of development
- Sensorimotor stage
- 0-2 years
- Infants uses their senses and movements to get information about their world; By the end of this stage, they have a sense as existing separately from the world around them.
- At around 6 months, object permanence develops = knowing something exists even when it is out of sight
- From around 4 months old, children repeat actions, such as dropping something deliberately that they first dropped by chance.
- Infants uses their senses and movements to get information about their world; By the end of this stage, they have a sense as existing separately from the world around them.
- 0-2 years
- Pre-operational stage
- 2-7 years
- Symbolic function (2 to 4 years)
- Children start imitating others and can use objects as symbols; children think in pictures and use symbols
- Symbolic play = using one object to represent different objects
- Animism = believing objects that are not alive can behave as if they are alive
- Egocentric = unable to see the world from any other viewpoint but ones own.
- Children start imitating others and can use objects as symbols; children think in pictures and use symbols
- Intuitive thought (4 to 7 years)
- This is the start of reasoning; Child ask a lot of questions as they realise that they know a lot and want to know more
- Centration = Focusing on one feature of a situation and ignoring other relevant features
- Irreversibility = Not understanding that an action can be reversed to return to the original state
- This is the start of reasoning; Child ask a lot of questions as they realise that they know a lot and want to know more
- Symbolic function (2 to 4 years)
- 2-7 years
- Concrete operational stage
- 7 - 12 years
- Children begin to apply rules and strategies to help their thinking and use concrete objects to aid their understanding
- Decentration = the ability to take multiple view of a situation
- Conservation = knowing that length, quantity or number are not related to visible appearance.
- Classification = naming and identifying objects according to size or appearance
- Decentration = the ability to take multiple view of a situation
- Children begin to apply rules and strategies to help their thinking and use concrete objects to aid their understanding
- 7 - 12 years
- Formal operational stage
- 12+ years
- Children's thinking is about controlling objects and events in the world
- Morality = general principles about what is right and wrong
- Can see that actions have consequences
- Hypothetico-deductive reasoning = can manipulate hypothetical ideas and consider what would happen
- Children's thinking is about controlling objects and events in the world
- 12+ years
- Sensorimotor stage
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