WK2 Cognitive dev = Piaget and development

Question 1

What does Piaget say about development

Answer 1

• 4 stages
• cant miss a stage
• have to pass through each one
• Rough ages are associated, but aren’t concrete

Question 2

What are the four stages

Answer 2

Sensorimotor, Pre-operational, Concrete-operational, Formal operations

Question 3

What does Piaget say about the Sensorimotor stage

Answer 3

• infants use their senses
• object permeance begins to develop
• infants use logical, goal directed actions
• infants struggle with reverse thinking

Question 4

What does Piaget say about the Pre-operational stage

Answer 4

• individuals use symbolic thinking
• language rapidly develops
• egocentric
• Individuals struggle with conservation tasks, reverse thinking and have only one way logic

Question 5

What does Piaget say about the concrete operational stage

Answer 5

• confidently navigate logical stability, reverse thinking and conservation tasks
• classification = can group via characteristics
• seriation = can arrange objects into order (e.g via size)
• but their logical system is tied to the physical reality, and they’re unable to reason about hypothetical or abstract problems

Question 6

What does Piaget say about the Formal operations stage

Answer 6

• can handle complex issues
• imagine possibilities
• hypothetical and deductive reasoning
• imagine future
• ideas less tied to physical reality