Stages og john piaget cognitive development

1. Piaget’s Stages of
Cognitive
Development

2. Piaget (1896 - 1980)
• Swiss Psychologist, worked for
several decades on understanding
children’s cognitive development
• Most widely known theory of cognitive
development.
• Was intrigued by kids’ thoughts & behavior, &
worked to understand their cognitive development

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Development

4. Development

5. -Physical
-Personal
-Social
-Cognitive
Types of Developmental Change
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Principles of Development
•Rates differ
•Orderly
•Gradual

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Brain Development
• Main structures
• Specialization and
integration
• Lateralization
• Storing and
transferring
information

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Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development
•Maturation
•Activity
•Social transmission
•Equilibration
•Mnemonic: MASE

9. Piaget’s Stages
of Cognitive
Development

10. Piaget’s
Stages of
Cognitive
Development
• A child’s capacity to understand certain
concepts is based on the child’s
developmental stage

11. -Maturation
-Activity
-Social transmission
-Equilibration
-Mnemonic: MASE
Piaget’s Theory
of
Cognitive Development

12. Piaget’s Four Stages
• Believed that all children develop according to four stages
based on how they see the world.
He thought the age may vary some, but that we all go through
the stages in the same order.
1. Sensori-motor (O - 2 years)
2. Preoperational (2 - 7 years)
3. Concrete operational (7 – 11 years)
4. Formal operations (12 – 15 years)

13. Sensorimotor
Stage: 0-2
• Learning through 5 senses
• Object permanence
• Goal directed actions

14. Birth to about 2 years, rapid change is seen
throughout
The child will:
• Explore the world through senses &
motor activity
• Early on, baby can’t tell difference
between themselves & the environment
• If they can’t see something, then it
doesn’t exist
• Begin to understand cause & effect
• Can later follow something with their
eyes

15. Preoperational
Stage: 2-7
• Operations
• Semiotic function
• One-way logic
• Difficulty with centering &
conservation
• Egocentrism
• Language develops

16. The child will:
• Better speech communication
• Can imagine the future & reflect on the
past
• Develop basic numerical abilities
• Still pretty egocentric, but learning to be
able to delay gratification
• Can’t understand conservation of
matter
• Has difficulty distinguishing fantasy from
reality (ex: cartoon characters are real
people).

17. Concrete
Operational
Stage: Ages 7 - 11
• ‘Hands on’ thinking
• Conservation, identity,
compensation
• Reversability
• Classification
• Seriation

18. The child will:
• Abstract reasoning ability & ability to
generalize from the concrete
increases
• Understands conservation of matter

19. Formal
Operational
Stage:Ages 11 - 15
• Not all individuals reach
this stage
• Hypothetico-deductive
reasoning
• ‘Scientific’ reasoning
• Adolescent egocentrism &
imaginary audience

20. The child will:
• Be able to think about hypothetical
situations
• Form & test hypotheses
• Organize information
• Reason scientifically