Piaget's Theory Of Cognitive Development

Question 1

Sensorimotor Stage

Answer 1

(birth-2 years old)

Infants know the world mostly in terms of their sensory impressions— looking, heating, touching, mouthing, and grasping

Question 2

Preoperational Stage

Answer 2

(2-7 years old)

• learns language but is too young to perform mental operations (imagining an action and mentally reversing it)
• ex: same amount of milk in a short cup vs a tall cup. Child will pick the tall cup thinking there is more (Egocentrism)

Question 3

Concrete Operational Stage

Answer 3

(7-11 years old)

- children gain the mental operations that enable them to think logically about concrete events

Question 4

Formal Operational Stage

Answer 4

(12-adulthood)

- abstract reasoning