cognition and development - piagets stages

Question 1

name the 4 stages in piagets theory and age in which they occur

Answer 1

sensorimotor stage - >0-2 years
pre - operational -> 2-7 years
concrete operational -> 7-11 years
formal operations -> 11 years +

Question 2

what is object permanence

Answer 2

The ability to realise that an object still exists when it passes out of the visual field.

Question 3

what is conservation

Answer 3

The ability to realise that quantity remains the same even when the appearance of an object or group of objects changes.

Question 4

what is egocentrism

Answer 4

The child’s tendency to only be able to see the world from their own point of view.

Question 5

what is class inclusion

Answer 5

An advanced classification skill in which we recognise that classes of objects have subsets and are themselves subsets of larger classes.

Question 6

what happens in the sensorimotor stage

Answer 6

physical sensations + basic coordination
other people as separate objects
develop object permanence after 8 months

Question 7

what happens in the preoperatioanl stage

Answer 7

children cannot conserve
children are egocentric
find class inclusion difficult

Question 8

what happens in the concrete operations stage

Answer 8

most children can conserve
perform better on egocentrism + class inclusion
have reasoning problems
struggle to reason abstract ideas and imagine objects they cant see

Question 9

explain formal operations

Answer 9

abstract reasoning develops
children can think in a scientific way
children can focus on an argument without getting distracted by content
formal reasoning tested by syllogisms