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The document outlines Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development, detailing his four stages: Sensori-motor, Pre-Operational, Concrete-Operational, and Formal Operational. Each stage is characterized by specific cognitive abilities such as object permanence, egocentrism, and hypothetical reasoning. Key concepts include schema, assimilation, accommodation, and equilibration, which explain how children's thinking evolves over time.

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Module 6

The document outlines Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development, detailing his four stages: Sensori-motor, Pre-Operational, Concrete-Operational, and Formal Operational. Each stage is characterized by specific cognitive abilities such as object permanence, egocentrism, and hypothetical reasoning. Key concepts include schema, assimilation, accommodation, and equilibration, which explain how children's thinking evolves over time.

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Module 6

Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive


Development
Who is Jean Piaget ?
Piagetian Task
Helps to understand how children's
thinking evolves as they grow.
Piaget called his general
theoretical framework "genetic
epistemo-logy"
Basic Cognitive Concepts
Schema
Assimilation
Accomodation
Equilibration
cognitive disequilibrium
Piaget’s Stages of
Cognitive Development
Stage 1. Sensori-motor Stage
The first stage corresponds from
birth to infancy.
Object permanence
Ability of the child to know that
an object still exists even when
out of sight.
Stage 2. Pre-Operational Stage
Covers from about two to seven
years old, roughly corresponding to
the preschool years
Symbolic Function
This is the ability to represent
objects and events.
Egocentrism
The tendency of the child to
only see his point of view and to
assume that everyone also has
his same point of view.
Centration
The tendency of the child to
only focus on one aspect of a
thing and exclude others.
Irreversibility
Pre-operational children still
have the inability to reverse
their thinking.
Animism
The tendency of children to
attribute human like traits to
inanimate obejcts.
Transductive reasoning
The pre-operational child’s type
of reasoning that is neither
inductive nor deductive.
Stage 3.
Concrete-Operational Stage
This stage is characterized by the
ability of the child to think logically
but only in terms of concrete
objects.
Decentering
The ability of the child to
perceive the different features
of objects and situations.
Reversibility
The child can now follow that
certain operations can be done
in reverse.
Conservation
Ability to know that objects like
number or area do not change
even if there is a change in
appearance.
Seriation
The ability to arrange things in a
series based on one dimension
such as weight, or size.
Stage 4.
Formal Operational Stage
It covers ages between 12 and 15
years, thinking becomes more
logical.
Hypothetical Reasoning
Ability to come up with different
hypothesis about a problem to
make a final decision.
Analogical Reasoning
Ability to perceive the
relationship in one instance and
use it to know possible answers
in similar situation.
Deductive Reasoning
Ability to think logically by
applying a general rule to a
situation.
References:
Part I Unit 3 Module 6 - Piaget's
Stages of Cognitive Development
Page 77-83

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