Stages of Cognition Development

Question 1

stages of cognition development

Answer 1

The sensorimotor Stage (Birth to 2 Years)
* The preoperational Stage (About Ages 2 through 7)
* The Concrete Operation Stage (About Ages 7 through 11)
* The Formal Operational Stage (About Age 12 and Older)

Question 2

The ________ stage is the period of development from birth through age two. During this initial phase of development, children utilize skills and abilities they were born with (such as looking, sucking,grasping, and listening) to learn more aboutthe environment.

Answer 2

Sensorimotor

Question 3

During this substage, the child
understands the environment purely
through inborn _____ such as sucking and looking

Answer 3

reflexes (0-1 month)

Question 4

This substage involves coordinating sensation and new schemas

Answer 4

Primary Circular Reactions (1-4 months)

Question 5

children begin a period of trial and error experimentation during the fifth substage

Answer 5

Tertiary Circular Reactions (12-18 months)

Question 6

Children begin to develop symbols to represent events or objects in the world in the final sensorimotor substage

Answer 6

Early Representational Thought (18-24 months)

Question 7

Child begins to represent the world with words, images, drawings etc…
can form a stable concepts and begin to reaso

Answer 7

preoperational

Question 8

pre

Answer 8

before

Question 9

operational

Answer 9

logical thinking

Question 10

preoperational thinking

Answer 10

thinking without logical rules

Question 11

• can represent an object that is nopt present
• the child uses symbols to stand for action

Answer 11

SYMBOLIC FUNCTION/ PRECONCEPTUAL STAGE (2-4 YEARS OLD)

Question 12

Know things but do not know how they work

become more social, less ego centric

they can’t further explain what they feel and see

Answer 12

INTUITIVE THOUGHT
(4-7 YEARS OLD)

Question 13

several characteristics or features of pre operational

Answer 13

centration/conservation
egocentrism
symbolic representation
aminism
pretend or symbolic play

Question 14

Children begin to think logically about Concrete events

Concepts attached to concrete situations. Time, space, and quantity
are understood and can be applied, but not as independent concepts.

Answer 14

Concrete operational

Question 15

For example, if you pour water from a short, wide cup into a tall, thin glass, a child in the concrete operational stage will understand that the amount of water can be reserved by pouring it back into the original cup

Answer 15

concrete operational

Question 16

hypothetical and abstract concepts

Answer 16

formal operation