Jean Piaget's Theory and Stages of Cognitive Development

1. Ashley Nicole G. Estrada BTLED 3-A
Piaget’s Stages of
Cognitive Development
MODULE 6

2. Learning Outcomes:
At the end of this module, students should be able to:
● Describe Piaget’s stages in your own words.
● Conduct a simple Piagetian Task interview with
children.
● Math learning activities to the learners’ cognitive
stage.

3. Introduction
JEAN PIAGET’S Cognitive Theory of
Development Jean Piaget's theory of
cognitive development suggests that
children move through four different stages
of learning. His theory focuses not only on
understanding how children acquire
knowledge, but also on understanding the
nature of intelligence.

4. Piagetian tasks
Piaget called his general theoretical
framework “genetic epistemology”
because he was interested in how
knowledge developed in human
organism.

5. It is the
cognitive
structures by
which
individuals
intellectually
adapt to and
organize their
environment
This is the
process of fitting
a new experience
into an existing
or previously
created cognitive
structure or
schema
It is the process of
creating a new
schema
It is achieving proper
balance between
assimilation and
accommodation
When our experience
do not match our
schemata or cognitive
structures, we
experience
COGNITIVE
DISEQUILIBRIUM
EQUILIBRATION
ACCOMMODATION
ASSIMILATION
SCHEMA
BASIC COGNITIVE CONCEPTS

6. PIAGET’S STAGES OF
COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT

7. 1. The Sensorimotor Stage
The first stage is the sensorimotor stage,
and during this stage the infant focuses
on physical sensations and on learning
to coordinate his body.
OBJECT PERMANENCE is the ability of
the child to know that an object still exist
even without of sight
Ages: Birth to 2 Years

8. 2.The Preoperational Stage
During this period, children are thinking
at a symbolic level but are not yet using
cognitive operations.
SYMBOLIC FUNCTION this is the ability
to represent objects and events.
Ages: 2 - 7 Years

9. EGOCENTRISM the child only see his/her point of
view and to assume that everyone also has his/her
same point of view.
CENTRATION the tendency of the child to only focus
on one aspect of a thing or event and exclude other
aspect.
IRREVERSIBILITY the inability to reverse their
thinking.
ANIMISM the tendency of children to attribute
human like traits to inanimate objects
TRANSDUCTIVE REASONING it is a child type of
reasoning that is neither inductive or deductive.

10. 3. The Concrete Operational Stage
It is characterized by the ability of the
child to think logically but only in terms
of concrete objects.
DECENTERING no longer is the child
focused or limited to one aspect.
Ages: 8 - 11 Years

11. REVERSIBILITY the child can flow
that certain operations can be
done in reverse.
CONSERVATION ability to attain
conservation
SERIATION the ability to order
or arrange things in a series

12. 4. The Formal Operational Stage
As adolescents enter this stage, they gain
the ability to think in an abstract manner,
the ability to combine and classify items
in a more sophisticated way, and the
capacity for higher-order reasoning.
Ages: 12 - 15 Years

13. HYPOTHETICAL REASONING the individual can now
deal with “what if” questions.
ANALOGICAL REASONING the individual can now
understand relationships and do analogical reasoning.
DEDUCTIVE REASONING the ability to think logically by
applying general rule to a particular situation.

14. QUIZ

15. 1. How many stages are present in Piaget's cognitive theory?
a. 2
b. 3
c. 5
d. 4
2. According to Piaget, which one of the following is not a basic
feature of the preoperational period?
a. Transformation
b. Centration
c. Decentration
d. Conservation
3. Which stage is directed through sensory experiences?
a. Pre-Operational stage
b. Sensorimotor stage
c. Concrete Operational stage
d. Formal Operational stage

16. 4. Animism is present in which stage?
a. Sensorimotor stage
b. Pre-Operational stage
c. Concrete Operational stage
d. Formal Operational stage
5. For the learning of language, which area is underestimated by
Piaget?
a. Heredity
b. Active construction by the child
c. Hands on experience
d. Social interaction
6. It is the process by which the cognitive structure is modified
a. Perception
b. Accommodation
c. Schema
d. Assimilation

17. 7. Development of the capacity for abstract scientific thinking is a
characteristic of which stage?
a. Formal Operational
b. Concrete Operational
c. Sensorimotor
d. Pre-Operational
8. Which cognitive ability comes in the preoperational stage?
a. Ability of goal directed behavior
b. Ability to take other's perspective
c. Hypothetico-deductive thinking
d. Ability for abstract thinking
9. In which stage does object permanence take place?
a. Formal Operational stage
b. Concrete Operational stage
c. Pre-Operational stage
d. Sensorimotor stage

18. 10. Egocentrism is present in which stage?
a. Formal Operational stage
b. Pre-Operational stage
c. Concrete Operational stage
d. Sensorimotor stage
11. __ are mental representations or concepts.
a. schemas
b. scenes
c. theory
d. adaptation
12. . The first stage of cognitive development is the _____ stage.
a. adaptation
b. assimilation
c. accommodation
d. sensorimotor

19. 13. ____ is adjusting what is already known to fit the new information.
a. schemata
b. assimilation
c. accommodation
d. None of the above
14. Cindy understands her world primarily by grasping and sucking
easily available objects. Cindy is clearly in Piaget's ________ stage
a. preoperational
b. concrete operational
c. sensorimotor
d. formal operational
15. Peek-a-boo works on children in what stage?
a. Sensorimotor
b. Preoperational
c. Concrete Operational
d. Formal Operational

20. Ashley Nicole G. Estrada BTLED 3-A
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