WK2 : Cognitive development Piaget Flashcards
What are the four stages of development
Sensorimotor, Pre-operational, Concrete-operational, Formal operational
What is the developmental period for each stage
S = 0-2 years
P = 2-7 years
C = 7-12 years
F = 12+
What is the primary characteristic for the sensorimotor stage?
Failure to differentiate between self and surrondings
What is the primary characteristic for the pre operational stage?
Mental imagery without principlaed thought
What is the primary characteristic for the concrete operational stage?
Principled thought confined to real world problems
What is the primary characteristic for the formal operational stage?
Principled thought applied to abstract problems
Sensorimotor
- lack of mental imagery
- solipsism
- no object permanence
Pre-operational
- egocentric
- operational intelligence
- failure to decenter
- conservation problems
Concrete operational
- correct ansers to conservation tasks
- logical justifications
- real-life problems and they struggle to apply principle thought to abstract problems
Formal operational
- systematic logical thinking and reasoning
- abstract thinking
What did Donaldson say about Piagets theory
-it didnt make sense
- Showed that when problems are re-phrased children are able to pass conservation tasks much earlier than previously thought
Naughty teddy
The child has been asked the same question twice, so they think they’ve got it wrong, so they give a different answer the second time.
However, if the change is done by an accidental, external agent, more children (who are in theory in the preoperational stage) give the correct answer.
This reinforced Donaldson’s ideas that children aren’t able to think logically, but the way the experiments are conducted is flawed.
Rai and Mitchell 2006
- Inference by elimination
- shows logical thinking and reasoning because children can see that the unfamiliar name, goes to the unfamiliar character
