Cognitive Development Jean Piaget Swiss Developmental Psychologist Sensorimotor Stage 02 years Acquire knowledge through direct experience and manipulation Actively exploring physical environment leads to cognitive development ID: 312527
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Piaget
Cognitive DevelopmentSlide2
Jean Piaget- Swiss Developmental PsychologistSlide3
Sensorimotor Stage (0-2 years)
Acquire knowledge through direct experience and manipulation.
Actively exploring physical environment leads to cognitive development.
Motor actions: reaching for objects
grabbing hair
pushing buttons
pulling, pouring
dropping spoonsSlide4
Sensorimotor (cont.)
Begin to develop schemata: mental representations of the world.
Assimilation
:
Accommodation
:
Object permanence (9-24 months)Slide5
Preoperational Stage (2-7 years)
Can use words, images, and symbols immaturely
Use imagination
Egocentrism (inability to see things from another's point of view
Can't focus on two things
at onceSlide6
Preoperational (Cont.)
Don't get the idea of
conservation
: the realization that properties of objects remain the same even if their shape changes.Slide7
Concrete Operational (7-11 years)
Logic used, but only in context of tangible objects and events.
Cannot think in abstracts or hypotheticals.
Thinking limited to personal experiences and actual events.Slide8
Formal Operational (11+)
Think abstractly, hypothetically, globally
According to Piaget, not all adults reach this in all areas of thought.