Piaget's stages of cognitive development
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- Created on: 23-11-20 09:12
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- Piaget Cognitive Development
- Sensorimotor (0-2 years)
- Infants think by interacting with the world using their senses
- Therefore they invent ways to solve problems like pulling a lever so they get to hear music.
- They start to understand cause and affect
- Therefore they invent ways to solve problems like pulling a lever so they get to hear music.
- They use newly developed motor skills
- Infant are inquisitive and like to explore
- Infants think by interacting with the world using their senses
- Preoperational (2-7 years)
- The child uses language and symbols (letters and numbers)
- Piaget believed that children at this stage don't understand concepts like number, mass and volume properly
- Showed this in the three mountains experiment. Where the children had to look at three mountains and had to choose a card that was how someone else would look at the mountains
- Children are very egocentric at this age
- Showed this in the three mountains experiment. Where the children had to look at three mountains and had to choose a card that was how someone else would look at the mountains
- Conservation marks the end of this stage
- Concrete operational (7-11 years)
- children at this age can demonstrate conservation, reversibility and serial ordering
- They have a mature understanding of cause and effect relationships
- Start to think logically if concepts are familiar and not abstract
- Piaget showed this in the conservation of number experiment. Children were shown two amounts that are the same. One is poured into a tall, thin beaker. The child is then asked if they have the same amount or if one has more.
- Formal operational (11+ years)
- They imagine the possible outcome of particular actions
- Children are able to think in an abstract manner and reason. Think in hypothetical terms.
- Piaget showed this in the pendulum experiment. He asked children to find out what determines how high a pendulum swings.
- At this stage, children will vary one thing at a time to see its affect and go about it in a scientific way to test hypothesis
- younger children will try to vary lots of different factors at the same time at random.
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- younger children will try to vary lots of different factors at the same time at random.
- At this stage, children will vary one thing at a time to see its affect and go about it in a scientific way to test hypothesis
- Piaget showed this in the pendulum experiment. He asked children to find out what determines how high a pendulum swings.
- Sensorimotor (0-2 years)
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