Piaget's Stages of Development

Question 1

Infants and young children learn primarily through sensory input and action.

There are 3 achievements during this stage: object permanence, causality, and symbolic thought.

Answer 1

Piagets: Sensorimotor Stage (Birth to 2 years)

Question 2

Allows the child to recognize that objects continue to exist even when they are out of sight

Answer 2

Object permanence

Question 3

When the child recognizes that certain events cause other events

Answer 3

Causality

Question 4

When the child begins to use language (symbols) to think about actions before performing them

Answer 4

Symbolic thought

Question 5

Key characteristic of this stage is symbolic function, which allows a child to learn through the uses of mental images, language and other symbols

Children in this stage engage in symbolic play and solve prolems mentall

Answer 5

Piaget: Preoperational stage (2 to 7 years)

Question 6

Children are capable of performing mental operations using logic and abstract thinking. This allows children to classify and problem-solve in more sophisticated ways

Answer 6

Piaget: Concrete operational stage (7 to 11 years)

Question 7

Children are able to think abstractly, hypothetically, and in a relativistic way. Can develop competing hypotheses about a problem and strategies for testing the hypotheses..

Thinking about thinking

Answer 7

Piaget: Formal Operational stage (11+ years)

Question 8

Incorporation of new information into existing schemas

Answer 8

Assimilation

Question 9

Modification of existing schemas

Answer 9

Accomodation

Question 10

Combination of accommodation and assimilation

Answer 10

Adaptation

Question 11

Based on the premise that people actively construct higher levels of knowledge.

Motivation for cognitive development occurs when there is a state of ‘disequilibrium’ brought on by a discrepancy between the person’s current understanding of the world and reality

Answer 11

Piaget’s Developmental Theory