Piagets Stages Of Intellectual Development

Question 1

Stages of intellectual development

Answer 1

Piaget identified four stages of intellectual development. Each stage is characterised by a different level of reasoning ability. Although the exact ages vary between children, all children develop through the same sequence o stages.

Question 2

Object permanence

Answer 2

The ability to realise that an object still exists when it passes out of the visual field.

Question 3

Conservation

Answer 3

The ability to realise that quantity remains the same even when the appearance of an object or group of objects changes.

Question 4

Ego centrism

Answer 4

The child’s tendency to only be able to see the world from their own point of view.

Question 5

Class inclusion

Answer 5

An advanced classification skill in which we recognise that classes of objects have subsets and are themselves subsets of larger classes.