Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Development Flashcards
1
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Stages
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- Sensorimotor
- Preoperational
- Concrete operational
- Formal operational
2
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Mnemonic for stages
A
Saying Piaget’s Cognitive Stages is Fun
3
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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
4
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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
5
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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
6
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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