STAGES OF COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT: PIAGET'S Flashcards
A theory that suggest that young children think differently that adults.
Cognitive Development
Cognitive Structure
Schema
Fitting new experiences into an existing schema
Assimilation
Creating a new schema
Accomodation
Balance between assimilation and accomodation
Equilibrium
4 Stages of Cognitive Development
Sensorimotor
Pre-operational
Concrete operational
Formal operational
Birth to 2years
- Coordination of sense with motor responses
- Grasping, sucking, and reaching
✓ OBJECT PERMANENCE
Sensorimotor
Object still exist even when out of sight
Object permanence
2 to 7years old
-begins to use language
✓ Egocentric Thinking
✓ Symbolic Function
✓ CENTRATION
✓ LACK OF CONSERVATION
✓ IRREVESIBILITY
✓Animism
✓Realism
Pre-operational
Difficulty seeing from other viewpoints
Egocentric thinking
Ability to represent objects and events
Symbolic function
Focus only on one aspect
Centration
Inability to realize that thing remains unchanged despite looking different
Lack of Conservation
Inability to reverse their thinking
Irreversibility
Attribute human like traits to inanimate objects
Animism
Believing in psychological events
Realism
7 to 11 years
- Ability to think logically but only in terms of concrete objects
- Covers elementary education
✓ Decentering
✓ Reversibility
✓ Conservation
✓ Seriation
CONCRETE operational
Ability to perceive different features
Decentering
Recognizing that certain operations can be done in reverse
Reversibility
Certain properties do not necessarily change with the change in apperance.
Conservation
11 years old- Above
- More logical
- Solve abstract problems and hypothesize
Formal Operational
