Play Development Flashcards
1
Q
Piaget’s stages of development
A
- sensorimotor
- preoperational
- concrete operational
- formal operational
2
Q
Sensorimotor (birth to 2 years old)
A
- children learn about the world through their senses and motor skills
- touch, oral, proprioception, vestibular, visual, and auditory
- large development of motor skills
- cause and effect
- object permanence = touch, oral, proprioception, vestibular, visual, and auditory
3
Q
Preoperational stage (ages 2 to 7)
A
- learn to imitate and pretend play
- egocentrism = difficulty seeing from others’ perspectives
- concrete thinking
- language development
4
Q
Concrete operational (7 to 11 years old)
A
- actions can be undone
- arrange items methodically
- consider multiple aspects of a situation
- how items are related
- play is related to playing with rules (such as frames), building things, and experiments to develop logical thinking
5
Q
Formal operational (ages 12 and up)
A
- develop abilities to grasp abstract concepts
- strategic games
- debate/discussion
- creative problem solving
