Intro

Question 1

What is paigets stages of cognitive development generally

Answer 1

• progressive reorganization of mental processes
• viewed the childs learning as an interaction bw: understanding world, interaction of experience and discrepancy, discovery of environmental, adjustments of view

Question 2

What is 0-2 years of paigets development and what happens

Answer 2

Sensorimotor- experience the world thru sensation + motor acts ( by age two they will finally learn object permanence)

Question 3

What happens in years 2-6 of paigets developmental theory

Answer 3

Pre Operational

• Egocentric thinking (egocentrism)
• They play w toys as if they are alive (animism)
• begin to lean symbols

Question 4

Wht happens in the concrete operational phase 6-11

Answer 4

• mental processes only as they relate to real object, can begin to understand that objects have constant mass/volume
• have ability to focus more on one aspect of a problem (decantation)
• the understand that actions may often be undone (reversibility)

Question 5

> 11 years formal operations paigets stages

Answer 5

-capacity for abstract thought, ability to understand hidden meaning and to develop theories (abstraction)