Piagets 4 stage theory

Question 1

What is it used for

Answer 1

Describes how different processes develop through 4 sequencial stages from birth to adolescence

Question 2

What is stage 1, and short description

Answer 2

Sensorimotor stage
- Age birth - 2yrs
- Infants construct their understanding of the world by coordinating sensory and motor activities

Question 3

What are the key accomplishments for Sensorimotor stage

Answer 3

Goal dirrect behaviour
- behaviour with a purpose in mind, or to achieve something

Objective permanence
- know that objects are permanent, they don’t not exist when out of sight

Question 4

What is stage 2, and short description

Answer 4

Pre operational stage
- Ages 2 - 7 yrs
- Children are increasingly able to think about and imagine things in their own minds

Question 5

What are the key accomplishments of the Pre opperational stage

Answer 5

Egocentism
- Only capable of seeing world from their point of view

Animism
- Beleif that everything that exists has feelings and concousness

Concentration

Transformation
-Understanding that something can change from one state to another (icecream mealts)

Reversibility
- Ability to follow a line of reasoning back to its original starting point (max has a brother Zac, who is Zacs brother?)

Question 6

What is stage 3, and short description

Answer 6

Concrete operational stage
-Ages 7 -12 yrs
-The way children think revolves around what they know and what they can experience through their sense

Question 7

What are the key accomplishments in Concrete operational stage

Answer 7

Classification
- Ability to organise information into catagories based on commen fetures

Conservation
- Idea that an object does not change its essential proporties when its shape or apperence changes

Question 8

What is stage 4, and short descpition

Answer 8

Formal operational stage
- Ages 12+ yrs
- More complex though processes become apparent and thinking becomes more sophisticated

Question 9

What are the key accomplishments in formal operational stage

Answer 9

Logical thinking
-refers to the ability to think in a systematic way, develop plan to solve a problem (algebra)

Abstract thinking
- Thinking that does not rely on being able to see or visulize things in order to understand concepts (justice or guilt)