Play Development

Question 1

Piaget’s stages of development

Answer 1

• sensorimotor
• preoperational
• concrete operational
• formal operational

Question 2

Sensorimotor (birth to 2 years old)

Answer 2

• children learn about the world through their senses and motor skills
• touch, oral, proprioception, vestibular, visual, and auditory
• large development of motor skills
• cause and effect
• object permanence = touch, oral, proprioception, vestibular, visual, and auditory

Question 3

Preoperational stage (ages 2 to 7)

Answer 3

• learn to imitate and pretend play
• egocentrism = difficulty seeing from others’ perspectives
• concrete thinking
• language development

Question 4

Concrete operational (7 to 11 years old)

Answer 4

• actions can be undone
• arrange items methodically
• consider multiple aspects of a situation
• how items are related
• play is related to playing with rules (such as frames), building things, and experiments to develop logical thinking

Question 5

Formal operational (ages 12 and up)

Answer 5

• develop abilities to grasp abstract concepts
• strategic games
• debate/discussion
• creative problem solving