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Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development

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  1. Sensorimotor stage
  2. Preoperational stage
  3. Concrete Operational stage
  4. Formal Operational stage
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Sensorimotor stage

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  • learns through objects through the sensory information
  • reflexive, circular reactions, mental representation
  • object permanence
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Preoperational stage

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  • symbolic (semiotic) function- extension of representational thought and permits learning through mental images, language, and other symbols (sophisticated play, mentally solving problems)
  • Limited by: Precausal (transductive) reasoning (aka magical thinking); animism; egocentrism; irreversibility; centration; unable to conserve
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Concrete operational stage

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  • capable of mental operations (logical rules for transforming and manipulating information)
  • can classify more sophisticated ways, seriate, understand part-whole relationships in relational terms, and conserve
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Formal operational stage

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  • able to think abstractly, capable of hypothetico-deductive reasoning
  • renewed ego centrism (personal fable, imaginary audience)
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What is Piaget’s first stage of cognitive development?

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Sensorimotor

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What is Piaget’s second stage of cognitive development?

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Preoperational

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What is Piaget’s third stage of cognitive development?

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Concrete operational

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What is Piaget’s fourth stage of cognitive development?

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Formal operational

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What are the major tasks of the sensorimotor stage?

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object permanence

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What are the major tasks of the preoperational stage?

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  • precausal (transductive) reasoning

- magical thinking

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What are the major tasks of the concrete operational stage?

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  • conservation

- horizontal decalage

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What are the major tasks of the formal operational stage?

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adolescent egocentrism

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Age of sensorimotor stage

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0-2

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Age of preoperational stage

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2-7

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Age of concrete operational stage

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Age of formal operational stage

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