Developmental Series

Question 1

What are the Piagets stages of cognitive development?

Answer 1

Sensorimotor

Preoperational

concrete Operational

Formal Operational

Question 2

What is the age range for sensorimotor stage of piagets statges of cognitive development?

Answer 2

0-2 (SENSation is everything, becoming MObile.

Question 3

what is the age range for preoperational stage of piagets stages of cognitive development?

Answer 3

2-7 (preschoolers)

Question 4

what is the age range for concrete operational stage of piagets stages of cognitive development?

Answer 4

7-12 (kids jumping rope and playing hopscotch on CONCRETE)

Question 5

what is the age range for formal operational stage of piagets stages of cognitive development?

Answer 5

12-adulthood (teenagers may or may not attend a formal dance at school)

Question 6

Descibe the sensorimotor stage of piagets stage of cognitive development.

Answer 6

Learning through the 5 senses, manipulating objects, simple trial and error

develop coordination, object recognition

OBJECT PERMANENCE - knowing object still exists even if not in sight anymore

Question 7

Describe the preoperational stage of piagets stages of cognitive development.

Answer 7

Thinking relationally

SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATION - chefs hat = chef cooking in kitchen

EGOCENTRISM - only able to see their own perspective

ANIMISM - believing objects have human thoughts and emotions (usually their own)

CENTRATION - focusing on one aspect of a story at a time and ignoring the rest

Question 8

Describe the concrete operational stage of piagets stages of development.

Answer 8

inductive logical reasoning (drawing conclusions from details)

CONSERVATION - able to understand wider glass with lower fill line might hold more water than skinnier glass with higher fill line

CLASSIFICATION - able to separate items by shared qualities and put them into hierarchies

REVERSIBILITY - knowing things can be put back to original state (retrace steps in backwards fashion, count backwards)

SERIATION - able to arrange objects according to quantitative value (this can include abstract quantities such as age)

Question 9

Describe the formal operational stage of piagets stages of cognitive development.

Answer 9

abstract thinking

DEDUCTIVE REASONING

PROBLEM SOLVING (MORE COMPLEX)

HYPOTHETICALS (in detail and broadening)

CONSTRUCTING ARGUMENTS

METACOGNITION - thinking about the process of thought, philosophical reflections