PIAGET’S THEORY OF COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT

4 Stages of Cognitive Development Sensorimotor Stage

Preoperational Stage

Concrete Operational Stage

Formal Operational Stage

Sensorimotor StageAges: birth to 2 Sensory perceptions

Motor activities

Infant trying to make sense of the world

Sub Stages of the sensorimotor stage Reflexes (0-1 month)

Primary Circular Reactions (1-4 months)

Secondary Circular Reactions (4-8 months)

Coordination of Reactions (8-12 months)

Tertiary Circular Reactions (12-18 months)

Early Representational Thought (18-24 months)

Preoperational Stageages:2 to 6

Language Development

Egocentrism

Conservation

Increase in role playing

Children will use their imagination(ex: pretending an old box is a house)

Preoperational StageEgocentrism:

- The inability of the child to view things from another perspective other than their own

Conservation:

- The awareness that altering a substance’s appearance does not change its basic properties

Conservation

Concrete operational stageages: 7 to 11 Use of logic

Think logically of concrete events

Difficulty understanding hypothetical concepts

Elimination of egocentrism

Processes During this stage: Seriation

Transitivity

Classification

Decentering

Reversibilty

Formal Operational StageAges: 12 to adulthood Think about abstract concepts

Systematic Planning

Deductive Reasoning

Problem Solving