Cognition

Question 1

How did Piaget’s work come about?

Answer 1

Children worked with early years developments of intelligence tests observing children. He became interested in the mistakes children made and thought these could provide an insight into their cognitive processes

Question 2

Piaget’s 4 Stages of Cognitive Development

1) Sensor- Motor Stage

Answer 2

Newborn focuses on almost entirely immediate sensory and motor experiences —-> Toddler’s have rudimental capacity for thinking

6 sub-stages: the final stage ‘Internal representation’ (Object permanence & planned actions) has contradicting research to suggest it develops at an earlier age

Bower- A screen was placed in front of an object and removed again. the object was either there or it wasn’t. When it wasn’t the baby was shocked= suggesting they understand object permanence at as early as 2-3 months

Question 3

2) Pre- operational Stage

Answer 3

Think about things more symbolically but this is pre-conceptual and intuitive

They tend to think egocentrically
eg. 3 mountain task

Question 4

3) Concrete Operational Stage

Answer 4

Can grasp more complex tasks and think more flexibly by using objects to contextualise learning

Question 5

4) Formal Operational Stage

Answer 5

Can reason hypothetically and work systematically