Cognitive Development

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What is Cognitive Development?
Cognitive Development is how the brain learns and grows throughout a person's life stages.
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What was Piaget's theory?
Children pass through distinct developmental stages in sequences. Piaget thought children should be able to discover things by themselves through experience.
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What is the Sensorimotor stage?
From 0-2 years old infants learn about the environment and develop early schemas by using their five senses.
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What is the Pre-operational stage?
From 2-7 years old children begin to control their environment by using symbolic behaviour including words, drawings and pretend play but are not yet able to think logically.
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What is the Concrete operation stage?
From 7-11 years old children use practical resources to help them understand the word. They classify, categorise and use logic to understand things they see.
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What is the Formal operation stage?
From 11-18 years old teenagers have the capacity for abstract thoughts, rational thoughts and problem solving.
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