Piaget Cognitive Development Flashcards
Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development
- Sensorimotor stage
- Preoperational stage
- Concrete Operational stage
- Formal Operational stage
Sensorimotor stage
- learns through objects through the sensory information
- reflexive, circular reactions, mental representation
- object permanence
Preoperational stage
- symbolic (semiotic) function- extension of representational thought and permits learning through mental images, language, and other symbols (sophisticated play, mentally solving problems)
- Limited by: Precausal (transductive) reasoning (aka magical thinking); animism; egocentrism; irreversibility; centration; unable to conserve
Concrete operational stage
- capable of mental operations (logical rules for transforming and manipulating information)
- can classify more sophisticated ways, seriate, understand part-whole relationships in relational terms, and conserve
Formal operational stage
- able to think abstractly, capable of hypothetico-deductive reasoning
- renewed ego centrism (personal fable, imaginary audience)
What is Piaget’s first stage of cognitive development?
Sensorimotor
What is Piaget’s second stage of cognitive development?
Preoperational
What is Piaget’s third stage of cognitive development?
Concrete operational
What is Piaget’s fourth stage of cognitive development?
Formal operational
What are the major tasks of the sensorimotor stage?
object permanence
What are the major tasks of the preoperational stage?
- precausal (transductive) reasoning
- magical thinking
What are the major tasks of the concrete operational stage?
- conservation
- horizontal decalage
What are the major tasks of the formal operational stage?
adolescent egocentrism
Age of sensorimotor stage
0-2
Age of preoperational stage
2-7
