Explain Jean Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development and have an understanding of the changes that occur in each stage.

Question 1

Jean Piaget’s theory

Answer 1

• children go through four stages of cognitive development, each with distinct ways of thinking and understanding the world.
• children interpret and adapt to new experiences, progressing through these stages as they grow.

Question 2

Sensorimotor Stage (Infancy)

Answer 2

• Age: 0-2 years
  Key Changes:
• Ability to use memory to recal object and events
• Understanding of world developed through sensory and physical experimentation

Question 3

Pre-operational Stage (Toddler)

Answer 3

• Age: 2 to 7 years
  Key Changes:
• Beginning of language through understanding of symbols
• Egocentric
• Significant growth in memory, imagination, and linear thinking (can think through events from start to finish)

Question 4

Concrete Operational Stage (Childhood)

Answer 4

• Age: 7 to 11 years
  Key Changes:
• Ordering and classifying based on appearance
• developing ability to empathize
• simplistic understanding of math, geometry and physics

Question 5

Formal Operational Stage (Adolescence and beyond)

Answer 5

• Age: 11-15
  Key Changes:
• Ability to draw conclusions based on hypotheses rather than objects
• Adolescent egocentrism
• Logical