WK2 : Cognitive development Piaget

Question 1

What are the four stages of development

Answer 1

Sensorimotor, Pre-operational, Concrete-operational, Formal operational

Question 2

What is the developmental period for each stage

Answer 2

S = 0-2 years
P = 2-7 years
C = 7-12 years
F = 12+

Question 3

What is the primary characteristic for the sensorimotor stage?

Answer 3

Failure to differentiate between self and surrondings

Question 4

What is the primary characteristic for the pre operational stage?

Answer 4

Mental imagery without principlaed thought

Question 5

What is the primary characteristic for the concrete operational stage?

Answer 5

Principled thought confined to real world problems

Question 6

What is the primary characteristic for the formal operational stage?

Answer 6

Principled thought applied to abstract problems

Question 7

Sensorimotor

Answer 7

• lack of mental imagery
• solipsism
• no object permanence

Question 8

Pre-operational

Answer 8

• egocentric
• operational intelligence
• failure to decenter
• conservation problems

Question 9

Concrete operational

Answer 9

• correct ansers to conservation tasks
• logical justifications
• real-life problems and they struggle to apply principle thought to abstract problems

Question 10

Formal operational

Answer 10

• systematic logical thinking and reasoning
• abstract thinking

Question 11

What did Donaldson say about Piagets theory

Answer 11

-it didnt make sense
- Showed that when problems are re-phrased children are able to pass conservation tasks much earlier than previously thought

Question 12

Naughty teddy

Answer 12

The child has been asked the same question twice, so they think they’ve got it wrong, so they give a different answer the second time.

However, if the change is done by an accidental, external agent, more children (who are in theory in the preoperational stage) give the correct answer.

This reinforced Donaldson’s ideas that children aren’t able to think logically, but the way the experiments are conducted is flawed.

Question 13

Rai and Mitchell 2006

Answer 13

• Inference by elimination
• shows logical thinking and reasoning because children can see that the unfamiliar name, goes to the unfamiliar character