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Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Development: Equilibration

Children progress through four major stages of cognitive development according to Piaget's theory: 1) The sensorimotor stage from birth to age 2 where children learn about the world through senses and motor skills. 2) The preoperational stage from ages 2 to 7 where children begin to use symbols and language but think egocentrically. 3) The concrete operational stage from ages 7 to 11 where children can logically think about concrete events and understand conservation. 4) The formal operational stage from age 12 and up where adolescents can think abstractly, hypothetically, and apply deductive/inductive reasoning.

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Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Development: Equilibration

Children progress through four major stages of cognitive development according to Piaget's theory: 1) The sensorimotor stage from birth to age 2 where children learn about the world through senses and motor skills. 2) The preoperational stage from ages 2 to 7 where children begin to use symbols and language but think egocentrically. 3) The concrete operational stage from ages 7 to 11 where children can logically think about concrete events and understand conservation. 4) The formal operational stage from age 12 and up where adolescents can think abstractly, hypothetically, and apply deductive/inductive reasoning.

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Factors that influence how Equilibration

children learn and grow. ..Balance between applying previous knowledge


Piaget’s Stages of
Schemas…
(assimilation) and changing behavior to account
for new knowledge (accommodation). Cognitive
…describes both the mental and physical
actions involved in understanding and knowing.
…Helps explain how children can move from one
stage of thought to the next.
Development
… categories of knowledge that help us to
interpret and understand the world.

Adaptation Processes

Assimilation
…Process of taking an existing schema to deal
with the new information.

…Subjective in approach as influenced by


personal feelings, tastes, or opinions since we
tend to modify experiences and information
slightly to fit in with our preexisting beliefs.

Accommodation
…Happens when the existing schemas does not
work and needs to be altered to deal with the
new information or experience.

…It involves modifying existing schemas, or


ideas as a result of new information or new
experiences.
Preoperational Stage - 2 to 7 Years Formal Operational Stage -
“The 4 Stages of Children...
ages 12 and Up
Cognitive ...begin to think symbolically. Adolescent or young adult...

Development” ...learn to use words to express full concepts and ...begin to think abstractly and reason
about hypothetical problems.
pictures to represent objects.

...have a ...learn more about moral, philosophical,


tendency to be ethical, social, and political issues.
egocentric in
...applies deductive logic or reasoning from
which one
a general principle to come up to specific
struggle to see
information.
things from
others'
Major Characteristics and perspective.
Developmental Changes
Sensorimotor Stage - Birth to 2 Concrete Operational Stage - 7 to
years 11 Years
Children... Children...
...begin to know about the world through ...begin to think logically about concrete event
movements and sensations.
...understand the concept of conservation or
...develop the concept of object the ability to realize that the quantity of object
permanence that things continue to exist even remain the same despite changes in its forms.
though they cannot be seen.
...apply
...learn basic actions such as sucking, grasping, inductive logic
looking, and listening. or reasoning
using specific
information to
reach a general
principle.

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