Cognitive Development and Piaget

Question 1

Sensorimotor stage

Answer 1

(birth to 2 years).

1. Reflex activity
2. Primary circular reactions
3. Secondary circular reactions
4. Co-ordination of secondary schemes
5. Tertiary circular reactions
6. Beginning of thought

Question 2

Pre-operational stage

Answer 2

2-7

• Language, pretend play, can refer to past and future.
• Object permanence.

Question 3

Concrete operational stage

Answer 3

7-11
Decentration: Can focus on more dimensions of a problem at once.
Seriation: The ability to arrange items mentally along a quantifiable dimension such as weight or height.
Transivity: The understanding of relationships among elements in a series.
- Less egocentrism in this stage

Question 4

Formal Operational stage

Answer 4

11-adulthood
- Mental actions on ideas
- Permit systematic and scientific thinking about problems, hypothetical ideas, and abstract concepts.
- Sense pf identity, complex thinking, appreciation of humour, development of personal relationships.
- Can also lead to adolescent egocentrism.
Adolescent idealism and rebellion against ideas.