Piaget's stages of cognitive development
- Created by: Erin Fraser
- Created on: 06-01-19 18:18
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- Piaget's stages of cognitive development
- Sensorimotor: birth–2 years
- Infants think by interacting with the world using their eyes, ears, hands and mouth. As a result, the infant invents ways of solving problems Piaget believed that a baby would not have a way of remembering and thinking about the world until they were about 18 months old.
- Preoperational: 2–7 years
- Children use symbols to represent their earlier sensorimotor discoveries. Development of language and make-believe play takes place. Piaget believed that children at this stage cannot properly understand how ideas like number, mass and volume really work. A child might be able to count to 100 but might not understand what a set of 10 really means.
- Concrete operational: 7–11 years
- Children's reasoning becomes logical providing the issues are concrete. Children may be able to understand simple logical principles.
- Formal operational 11-18 years
- This is when the capacity for abstract thinking allows adolescents to reason through symbols that do not refer to the real world .
- Sensorimotor: birth–2 years
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