PIAGET

COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENTALTHEORY

PIAGET

emergence of more and more logical forms of thought and reasoning

• children invent and construct rules of logic that govern their understanding of the world around them

more on the PIAGET dude

Makes specific predictions about how children will develop and function at different ages

Research pretty much confirms the initial order of stages

However, ages at which different children reach each stage varies greatly

The stages….a la Piaget

Sensorimotor

Preoperational

Concrete operationsl

Formal operations

SENSORIMOTOR STAGE

AGES 0-2 YEARSstage is essentially the beginning development of feeling or sense basedactions.

the baby develops an ability to select actions as opposed to simple reflex to things

PREOPERATIONAL STAGE

AGES 2-7 YEARSPre-operational thought is defined as the ability to represent objects and events

such as….

deferred imitationsymbolic playdrawingspoken language

CONCRETE OPERATIONS

AGES 7-12 YEARSa child’s reasoning ability becomes logical and fully reversible

reversibility for Piaget is the most clearly defined element of intelligence

Reversibility refers to the ability to follow a line of reasoning back to where it started.

CONCRETE OPERATIONS

Conservation - mass is the same even if it’s a different shape

Begin to move away from ego-centralism

moral reasoning (justice, rules, right wrong)

children can begin to explain their logic

FORMAL OPERATIONS

AGES 11 TO 14/15 YEARS

IDEALSIM

Cognitive structures reach maturity….

Developed as well as but not as good as an adults cognitive structure

Characterized by hypothetically and deductive reasoning