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There Are Three Basic Components To Piaget's Cognitive Theory

The document discusses Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development, which proposes that children progress through four distinct stages as they mature - sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational. Piaget believed cognitive development is biologically based and universal across cultures.

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There Are Three Basic Components To Piaget's Cognitive Theory

The document discusses Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development, which proposes that children progress through four distinct stages as they mature - sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational. Piaget believed cognitive development is biologically based and universal across cultures.

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HUMAN DEVELOPMENT THEORY

Piaget’s Theory

McLeod, S. A. (2009). Jean Piaget. Retrieved from


http://www.simplypsychology.org/piaget.html

Children are born with a very basic mental structure (genetically inherited and evolved) on
which all subsequent learning and knowledge is based.

There Are Three Basic Components To Piaget's Cognitive Theory:

1. Schemas
(Building blocks of knowledge). http://www.simplypsychology.org/piaget.html
2. Adaptation processes that enable the transition from one stage to another
(equilibrium,assimilation and  accommodation).

3. Stages of  Development:


 sensorimotor,
 preoperational,
 concrete operational,
 formal operational.

Piaget called the schema the basic building block of intelligent behavior – a way of
organizing knowledge. Indeed, it is useful to think of schemas as “units” of knowledge, each
relating to one aspect of the world, including objects, actions and abstract (i.e. theoretical)
concepts.

Piaget believed that children think differently than adults and stated they go through 4
universal stages of cognitive development.  Development is therefore biologically based and
changes as the child matures.  Cognition therefore develops in all children in the same
sequence of stages.

Each child goes through the stages in the same order, and no stage can be missed out -
although some individuals may never attain the later stages. There are individual differences
in the rate at which children progress through stages.

Piaget did not claim that a particular stage was reached at a certain age - although
descriptions of the stages often include an indication of the age at which the average child
would reach each stage.

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HUMAN DEVELOPMENT THEORY

Piaget (1952) believed that these stages are universal - i.e. that the same sequence of
development occurs in children all over the world, whatever their culture.

Stage of
Key Feature Research Study
Development

Blanket & Ball Study


Sensorimotor
Object Permanence http://www.simplypsychology.org/
0 - 2 yrs.
sensorimotor.html

Preoperational
Egocentrism Three Mountains
2 - 7 yrs.

Concrete
Operational Conservation Conservation of Number
7 – 11 yrs.

Pendulum Task
Formal Or ask:
Manipulate ideas in head, e.g.
Operational If Kelly is taller than Ali and Ali is taller
Abstract Reasoning
11yrs +
than Jo, who is tallest?”  

Implications of his theory

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