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Sensorimotor Stage: Approx. Age Piaget: Cognitive Development

Piaget's theory of cognitive development outlines four stages of development: 1) The sensorimotor stage from birth to age 2 where infants acquire knowledge through senses and manipulating objects. 2) The preoperational stage from age 2 to 7 where children learn through pretend play but struggle with logic and perspectives. 3) The concrete operational stage from age 7 to 11 where thinking becomes more logical but rigid around abstract concepts. 4) The formal operational stage beginning in adolescence involving increased logic, reasoning abilities and understanding abstract ideas.

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Sensorimotor Stage: Approx. Age Piaget: Cognitive Development

Piaget's theory of cognitive development outlines four stages of development: 1) The sensorimotor stage from birth to age 2 where infants acquire knowledge through senses and manipulating objects. 2) The preoperational stage from age 2 to 7 where children learn through pretend play but struggle with logic and perspectives. 3) The concrete operational stage from age 7 to 11 where thinking becomes more logical but rigid around abstract concepts. 4) The formal operational stage beginning in adolescence involving increased logic, reasoning abilities and understanding abstract ideas.

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APPROX.

AGE
birth to age 2

PIAGET: COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT

Sensorimotor Stage:

acquire knowledge through sensory experiences and manipulating objects.


A child's intelligence consists of their basic motor and sensory explorations of the world.
developing object permanence or object constancy, the understanding that objects

continue to exist even when they cannot be seen, is an important element


By learning that objects are separate and distinct entities and that they have an
existence of their own outside of individual perception, children are then able to begin to

age 2 to about age 7

attach names and words to objects.


Preoperational Stage:

learn through pretend play but still struggle with logic and taking the point of view of

other people
often struggle with understanding the ideal of constancy
Example: a researcher might take a lump of clay, divide it into two equal pieces, and
then give a child the option of choosing two pieces of clay to play with. One piece of clay
is rolled into a compact ball while the other is smashed into a flat pancake shape. Since
the flat shape looks larger, the preoperational child will likely choose that piece even

age 7 to 11

though the two pieces are exactly the same size.


Concrete Operational Stage:

begin to think more logically, but their thinking can also be very rigid
tend to struggle with abstract and hypothetical concepts
become less egocentric and begin to think about how other people might think and feel
begin to understand that their thoughts are unique to them and that not everyone else

begins in adolescence and

necessarily shares their thoughts, feelings, and opinions.


Formal Operational Stage:

spans into adulthood

involves an increase in logic, the ability to use deductive reasoning, and an understanding

of abstract ideas
people become capable of seeing multiple potential solutions to problems and think more
scientifically about the world around them

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