COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT

SABA SHARIF R0ll No:01,Section (C)

IN THE NAME OF ALLAH THE MOST BENIFICIENT THEMOST MERCIFUL

To understand the concept of cognitive development

To understand the stages of cognitive development

Objective

DEVELOPMENT means over all changes from conception to death.

Development:

Physical development, deal with the changes in the body;

Personal development, means the changes in an individual’s personality;

Social development refers to changes in the way an individual relates to others;

Cognitive developmentgradual and orderly changes in thinking by

which mental processes become more complete and sophisticated.

kinds of develpment

Piaget divided the cognitive development into four stages:

1. sensory motor2. Preoperational3. concrete operational4. formal operational. Different children may pass through

the stages at some what different rates

Stages of Cognitive development

Senses and motor activity

Object permanence

Self and world

Stage 1 Sensorimotor (0-2)

Semiotic function

Egocentricism

Lack of conservation

Development of language

Stage 2 Pre-operational (2-7)

Principle of conservation

Seriation

Classification Objective Thinking

Stage 3 Concrete Operational (7-11)

Children's thinking becomes formal, logical and abstract

Hypothetical conditions The ability to reason about situations and

conditions that have not been experienced.

Stage 4 Formal Operational (11- adulthood)

Constructive approach

Facilitate rather than direct learning

Consider child level of knowledge

On going assessment

Turn the classroom into a setting exploration and discovery

Educational implication of Piaget’s theory

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