SA - Piaget Stages Flashcards
What is cognitive development?
How children learn to think, reason, understand, organise and remember
Who was Piaget?
Very important cognitive psychologist who began work in the 1920s. Work not really discovered by the rest of the world until the 1960s.
Three influences on development
maturation
Activity - the cognitive processing expediated by children moving
Social transmission - learning concepts and procedures from others
How do children respond to the three influences on development
By organisation (schemes/schemas)
What are schemes or schemas
Building blocks of thinking. How we organise what we know.
Adaptation
The process of creating a good fit between what we know (schemes) and what we’ve just encountered
The process of creating a good fit between what we know (schemes) and what we’ve just encountered
Adaptation
Assimilation
Fits new item into existing schema
E.g Scheme is a bird based on a budgerigar. Child sees a sparrow which looks similar but brown. Says bird is a brown budgerigar.
Child sees a sparrow which looks similar but brown. Says bird is a brown budgerigar. What is this called?
Assimilation
Accommodation
Creates new schema for new information
Child knows a bird called a budgerigar. Sees a sparrow. Through experience realises it is not a brown budgerigar but a sparrow. A separate species of bird all together. Child changes schema.
Child knows a bird called a budgerigar. Sees a sparrow. Through experience realises it is not a brown budgerigar but a sparrow. A separate species of bird all together. A sparrow. What is this called?
Accommodation
What is equilibration
Balance of organising, assimilating and accommodating
Balance of organising, assimilating and accommodating
Equilibration
Disequilibration
Applies scheme to existing situation but it does not work
Applies scheme to existing situation but it does not work
Disequilibration
Paiget’s Constructivism
Through disequilibration new schema is constructed. This knowledge is constructed through exploration, discovery, experimentation, reflecting
What are the 4 major stages in Piaget’s stage theory of cognitive development
- Sensorimotor
- Preoperational
- Concrete Operational
- Formal Operational
What ages are covered by the four stages?
Sensorimotor - birth to 2
Preoperational - 2 to 7
Concrete operational - 7 to 11
Formal operational - 11 to 15 ?
What is Piaget’s theory called?
Stage Theory of Cognitive Development