Piagets (1) 1.3

Question 1

What did he belive?

Answer 1

• Four stages of development
• part of theory was of how thinking develops called ‘theory of cognitive development’
• he suggested that we go through distinct stages of development

Question 2

1st stage Sensorimotor stage (birth to 2 years)

Answer 2

• develops Object permanence
• children learn by colour, texture…
• put things in their mouth
• learn to control their movement

Question 3

Concrete operational stage( 7 to 12 years)

Answer 3

• Difficulty in mortality
• children begin to apply rules and strategies

Question 4

Formal operation (12 + years)

Answer 4

• Control over thought
• think about more than two things
• can see that actions have consequences
  -Understand events have sequences

Question 5

Early brain development

Answer 5

• Pre -operational stage (2-7 years)
• symbolic (symbolic play) function stage (2-4 years)
• intuitive thought stage (4 -7 years)

Question 6

1st stage: pre-operational stage (2-7 years old)
Symbolic function stage

Answer 6

• 2-4 years
• thinks in Pictures and symbols
• symbolic play
  -Egocentric (only see the world through their own eyes and not others)
• animism (children belive objects behave as if they are alive)

Question 7

2nd stage: pre-operational stage (2- 7 years)
Intuitive thought stage

Answer 7

• 4-7 years
• children ask questions
• centration (only focus on one thing when smt Is complex)
  -Once they develop conservation (understanding changing how something looks does not change the objects volume, size or weight) they have moved on to another stage