DP3 - Jean Piaget and Stages of Cognitive Development Flashcards
4 Stages of cognitive development
Sensorimotor stage
Preoperational stage
Concrete operational stage
Formal operational stage
Sensorimotor stage
Birth - 2 years
Object permanence
Goal directed behaviour
Preoperational stage
2 - 7 years
Centration
Egocentrism
Symbolic thinking
Animism
Concrete operational stage
7 - 11 years
Conservation
Classification
Reversibility of thought
Sensorimotor stage
12 years and beyond
Abstract thinking
Idealistic thinking
Hypothetic-deductive thinking
Object permanence
The understanding that objects still exist even if they cannot be seen, heard or touched.
Symbolic thinking
The ability to use symbols such as words and pictures to represent objects that are not physically present.
Egocentrism
The tendency to perceive the world solely from one’s own point of view.
Animism
The belief that everything which exists has some kind of consciousness.
Centration
The cognitive ability to focus on only one quality or feature of an object or event at a time.
Reversibility of thought
The ability to mentally follow a sequence of events or line of reasoning back to its starting point.
Conservation
The understanding that certain properties of an object can remain the same even when its appearance changes.
Idealistic thinking
Often think about the most desirable characteristics of themselves and others.
Abstract thinking
A way of thinking that does not rely on being able to see, visualise, experience or manipulate in order to understand something.
