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Jean Piaget was a Swiss psychologist known for his theory of cognitive development, which outlines how children's thinking evolves through four stages: Sensorimotor, Preoperational, Concrete Operational, and Formal Operational. Key concepts include schema, assimilation, accommodation, and equilibration, which describe how individuals adapt their understanding of the world. Piaget's work has significantly influenced education by enhancing the understanding of children's cognitive capacities at different developmental stages.

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Jean Piaget was a Swiss psychologist known for his theory of cognitive development, which outlines how children's thinking evolves through four stages: Sensorimotor, Preoperational, Concrete Operational, and Formal Operational. Key concepts include schema, assimilation, accommodation, and equilibration, which describe how individuals adapt their understanding of the world. Piaget's work has significantly influenced education by enhancing the understanding of children's cognitive capacities at different developmental stages.

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Piaget’s Stages of

Cognitive
Development
JEAN
PIAGET
JEAN PIAGET
 Swiss Psychologist, worked for
several decades on understanding
children’s cognitive development

 Jean Piaget was born in 1896 in


Neuchatel, Switzerland.

 Most widely known theory of


cognitive development.

 Was intrigued by kids’ thoughts &


behavior, & worked to understand
their cognitive development
What is Cognitive Development?
• Cognitive Development is the emergence of the
ability to think and understand.

• The acquisition of the ability to think, reason and


problem solve.

• It is the process by which people's thinking changes


across the life span.

• Piaget studied Cognitive Development by observing


children in particular, to examine how their thought
BASIC COGNITIVE CONCEPTS
• SHCEMA
They are cognitive structures that represent a certain aspect
of the world and can be seen as categories which have
certain pre-conceived ideas in them.

• ASSIMILITION
It is using an existing schema to deal with a new object or
situations. Here, the learner fits the new idea into what he
already know. In Assimilation, the schema is not changed, it
is only modified.
BASIC COGNITIVE CONCEPTS

• ACCOMODATION
This happens when the existing schema (knowledge) does not work
and needs to be changed to deal with a new object or situation. In
Accommodation, the schema is altered; a new schema may be
developed.

• EQUILIBRATION
Equilibrium helps explain how children are able to move from one
stage of thought to the next.
THE FOUR STAGES OF
COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
1 SENSORI MOTOR STAGE
( BIRTH – 2
YEARS)
- Infancy
• Infants construct an understanding of the world by
coordinating sensory experiences (seeing, hearing) with
motor actions (reaching, touching).

• Develop Object Permanence (memory) - Realize that


objects exist even if they are out of sight.

• Infants progress from reflexive, instinctual actions at birth


to the beginning of problem solving (intellectual) and
symbolic abilities (language) toward the end of this
stage.
2 PREOPERATIONAL STAGE
( 2 – 7 YRS)
- Toddlers and Early
Childhood
• Begin to think symbolically and learn to use words and
pictures to represent objects. This is a period of
developing language and concepts.

This stage is further divided into 2 sub-stages:

a. Preconceptual stage (2-4 yrs) :


Increased use of verbal representation but speech is
egocentric. The child uses symbols to stand for actions; a toy doll
stands for a real baby or the child role plays mummy or daddy.
2 PREOPERATIONAL STAGE

b. Intuitive stage (4-7 yrs):


Speech becomes more social, less egocentric. Here the
child base their knowledge on what they feel or sense to be true, yet
they cannot explain the underlying principles behind what they feel
or sense.
3 Concrete Operational Stage
(7-12 yrs)
-Childhood and Early
Adolescence
The concrete operational stage is characterized by the appropriate
use of logic. Important processes during this stage are:

• Seriation: The ability to sort objects in an order according to size, shape


or any other characterstics.
• Transitivity: The ability to recognize logical relationships among elements
in a serial order.
3 Concrete Operational Stage

• Classification: The ability to group objects together on the basis of


common features. The child also begins to get the idea that one set can
include another.

• Decentring: The ability to take multiple adpects of a situation into account.

• Reversibility: The child understands that numbers or objects can be


changed, then returned to their original state.
4 Formal Operational Stage
(12 yrs & above)
-Adolscence and
Adulthood
Major characteristics and developmental changes during this time:

• Begins to think abstractly and reason about hypothetical problems


• Begins to think more about moral, philosophical, ethical, social, and political
issues that require theoretical and abstract reasoning
• Begins to use deductive logic, or reasoning from a general principle to specific
information
CONTRIBUTION TO
EDUCATION
• Piaget's theory helped educators, parents and investigators to
comprehend the capacity of children in their different stages.

• He made us conscious with the way children and adults think.

• A lot of school programs have been redesigned taking as base


Piaget's discoveries.

• Piaget made a revolution with the developmental psychology


concentrating all his attention to the mental process and his role
with behavior.
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