6.2a Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development

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Jean Piaget

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Believed cognitive development is not one continuous progression of change. Children make leaps in cognitive abilities from one stage of development to the next. believed that cognitive development is a combination of nature and nurture

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Cognition

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refers to the mental activities that help us function

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schema

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mental container we build to hold our experiences (images, models, and/or concepts)

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assimilate

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incorporating new experiences into our existing schema or categories

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accommodate

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adjusting our schema to better fit our experiences.

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Egocentrism

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(Preoperational Stage) not about selfishness, but about being unable to see another person’s perspective “I am the World”

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Theory of Mind

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refers to the ability to understand that others have their own thoughts and perspective (maturation of egocentrism)

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Sensorimotor Stage (Birth to nearly 2)

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Experiencing the world through senses and actions (looking, touching, mouthing, and grasping)
Development: Object Permeance- (the idea that objects exist even when they can’t be seen) and Stranger Anxiety

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Preoperational (2 to about 6 or 7 years)

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Representing things with words and images; is more intuitive than logical reasoning since they are too young to perform mental operations.
Development: Pretend Play, Egocentrism, Language

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Concrete Operational (About 7 to 11 years)

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Thinking logically about concrete events; grasping concrete analogies and performing arithmetical operations
Development: Conservation, Mathematical Transformations

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Formal Operational (About 12 to Adulthood)

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Abstract Reasoning, Concrete operations like arithmetic, and Formal Operations includes allegorical
Developmental: Abstract Logic, Potential for mature, moral reasoning