Lecture 5

Question 1

4 Stages of Piaget’s Cognitive Development Theory

Answer 1

1) Sensorimotor
2) Preoperational
3) Concrete Operational
4) Formal Operational

Question 2

Sensorimotor Stage (3)

Answer 2

1) Birth- 2 years
2) Divided into 6 substages
3) Building schemes through sensory and motor exploration

Question 3

6 Sensorimotor substages

Answer 3

1) Reflexive schemes
2) Primary circular reactions
3) secondary circular reactions
4) Coordination of secondary circular reactions
5) Tertiary circular reactions
6) Mental representation

Question 4

Tertiary circular reactions

Answer 4

Steps on duck, notices noise, squeezes duck intentionally

Question 5

4 Attainments in Stage 1

Answer 5

1) Object search
2) Mastery of A not B search
3) Make-believe play
4) Treating pictures and videos symbolically

Question 6

Preoperational Stage (2)

Answer 6

1) 2-7 years

2) Sensorimotor activity leads to internal images of experience, which children then label with words

Question 7

2 Limitations of Preoperational thought

Answer 7

1) Egocentricism

2) Animistic thinking

Question 8

Concrete Operational Stage (5)

Answer 8

1) 7-11 years
2) Thinking is more logical
3) Conservation
4) Seriation (transitive inference)
5) Spatial reasoning (cognitive maps)

Question 9

Seriation/transitive inference

Answer 9

If A > B and B > C therefore A > C

Question 10

Formal Operational Stage

Answer 10

Capacity for abstract, systematic, scientific thinking

Question 11

4 Attainments which occurred sooner than Piaget expected

Answer 11

1) Secondary circular reactions
2) Object permanence
3) Deferred imitation
4) Problem solving by analogy