1.5 Piaget cognitive stages Flashcards
1
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Sensorimotor: birth - 2 yrs
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- learn about self and environment through reflexes and motor actions
- learns they are separate from the environment
- modify behavior using the senses
2
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Preoperational: ~ when they can talk to 7 yrs
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- thinking influenced by fantasy
- lives in the present (no sense of time), takes info and fits it to his ideas
3
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Concrete: first grade - 11 yrs
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ability to think abstractly
make rational judgements
4
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formal operations: adolescence -death
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capable of hypothetical and deductive reasoning
fully capable of abstract thinking
