Piaget's Stage of cognitive Development Flashcards
What are the 4 stage of cognitive development
1) Sensorimotor (from Birth to Age 2)
2) Preoperational (from 2 to age 7)
3) Concrete operational (from age 7 to 11)
4) formal operational (Age 11 and beyond)
What are the characteristics of the sensorimotor stage
- Lack of object permanence (“Out of sight, out of mind”)
The understanding that objects continue to exist even when they can’t be seen
What are the achievment of sensorimotor stage
Early language
What is centration
The tendency of children in the preoperational stage to attend to one aspect of a problem, object, or situation at a time
Irreversability
A childs inability to reverse the steps of an action in their mind, returning an object to its previous state ( Pre operational state)
Transductive reasoning
Tendency to see a connection between unrelated instances using neither dedutive or inductive
( Pre operational state
Sociocentrism is a characteristic of which stage
Concrete operational
What are the achievements of the Concrete Operational stage
- Transivity
- Classification
- Seriation
-Reversibility
What is seriation
Process of arranging a collection of items in a specific order (series) on the basis of a particular dimensions
What is reversibility?
Mental operation that reverses a sequence of events or restores a changed state of affairs to the original condition
What is naive idealism
Conception of an ideal or perfect solutions to the world and their own problem ( Formal Operational)
what is adolescent egocentrism
Heightened self-consciousness (sense of personal uniqueness and invincibility)
Imaginary audience
They will be the center of attention in social setting (Formal Operational)
Personal Fable
Sense of personal uniqueness and invincibility risk taking behaviors
What are the achievements in the Formal Operational stage
- Hypothetical thinking: analyse environment and make deductions they can create theories about what is possible, based on their personal knowledge
- Deductive thinking
