Piaget Theory Flashcards
What are Piaget’s theories?
1) His stages of cognitive development
2) His ideas of schemas
What is the four stages of cognitive development?
- Sensorimotor stage (0-2)
- Pre- operational stage (2-7)
- Concrete operational stage (7-11)
- Formal operational stage (11-18)
What is the sensorimotor stage?
What happens during this stage?
The stage where children learn how to perform physical actions such as crawling and walking which are gross motor skills.
In this stage, they begin to know the world through their movements and sensations by using their eyes/ears/hands and mouth but as they continue to learn things exist they cannot be seen or they are hidden which is object permance
What is the blanket + ball study?
What is pre operational stage?
What happens during this stage?
This is the stage when children learn to use words and pictures to represent objects.
Children tend to get and be egocentric.
What is egocentric?
Egocentric is when children see things from other people’s perspective instead of their own but struggle to comprehend it therefore they assume others do the same implied by the three mountains test
What’s the three mountains test?
What’s the concrete operational stage?
This stage is when children start to think logically about concrete events through focusing on what can be observed through the five senses and understand the concept of conversation.
What is conservation?
What’s formal operational stage?
This stage is when abstract thinking comes into place so starts thinking about objects and ideas that are not physically present
What’s does abstract thinking demonstrate?
It demonstrates hypothetical thinking through thinking about the possible consequences of things that has not taken place.
Enables individuals to think through complicated ideas in their heads without seeing the concrete image.
What is a schemas?
Schemas is both the category of knowledge and the process of obtaining that knowledge.
What happens when new information is added to a existing chema?
When new information is added to a existing schema, this is assimilation. During assimilation, a child experience matches what they understand putting them in a state of equilibrium making them feel happiness and balanced.
What’s happens when new information develops or changes a schema?
When new information develops or changes a schema, this is accommodation. When a child experiences new information that doesn’t match what they understand, this puts them in a state of disequilbrium, making them feel a state of unhappiness, unbalance, and misunderstanding.
