Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Development

Question 1

Stages

Answer 1

• Sensorimotor
• Preoperational
• Concrete operational
• Formal operational

Question 2

Mnemonic for stages

Answer 2

Saying Piaget’s Cognitive Stages is Fun

Question 3

Sensorimotor

Answer 3

• 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

Question 4

Preoperational

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Concrete operational

Answer 5

• 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

Question 6

Formal operational stage

Answer 6

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