Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Development Flashcards

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Stages

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  • Sensorimotor
  • Preoperational
  • Concrete operational
  • Formal operational
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Mnemonic for stages

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Saying Piaget’s Cognitive Stages is Fun

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Sensorimotor

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  • Development through 5 senses
  • Development through motor response
  • Object permanence (things out of sight still exist)
  • Egocentric (see world from ones point of view)
    0-2 yrs
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Preoperational

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  • Symbolic thinking
  • Imagination (magical thinking, animism, plays pretend)
  • abstract thinking is difficult
  • asks a lot of questions (intuition)
    2-7 years
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Concrete operational

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  • develop concrete cognitive operations (sorting blocks in certain order)
  • Conservation develops (something stays same in volume even if shape changes)
  • Conductive reasoning (mathematical advancements)
    7-11 yrs
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Formal operational stage

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  • more rational, logical, organized, moral, and consistent thinking
  • hypothetical thinking (can think outside present)
  • abstract concepts (love, hate, failures, successes)
  • deductive reasoning
    >11 yrs
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