T1-Piaget: Cognitive Development Flashcards
What are the 4 stages for Piagets cognitive growth and development?
Sensorimotor (birth-2 year)
Pre-operational (2-7)
Concrete operations (7-11)
Formal operations (12-18)
Reflexive behavior and gradually develops into intentional behavior and interest in novelty
Sensorimotor
What are 3 big things that go on in the pre-operational stage (2-7)
Egocentricity
Magical thinking
Pretending!!
What happens if you say to a sick kid aged 2-7 something like “it’s just going to be a quick stick in your arm” or “you’re coughing your head off!”
They will literally think a shot will be a stick in their arm or that they are literally coughing their head off–this is because they have CONCRETE THINKING
In the per-operational stage, children ___ facts and ____ adult authority
Confuse facts and accept adult authority
What stage is characterized by this:
- Groups objects
- Series of actions
- Relational terms
- Perceive changes
- Conscience
- Competitive
- Rules
- Double meanings
- Awareness
Concrete operational (7-12)
If you tell an 8 year old, we’re going to the hospital to put dye in your veins, how will the 8 year old interpret that?
A double meaning–they think they are going to the hospital to put “die” in the veins and that they will die
What are the big things that happen in formal operation (12-18)?
Abstract thinking
KNOWS IT ALL
Imaginative
FUTURE ORIENTED
