jean piaget’s theories
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Practice II
Marrón MatiasGueler Ana Carolina
Jean Piaget’s Theories: Cognitive
Development in Children
• Piaget studied how knowledge begins and develops in individuals.
Stages of cognitive development
Processes of cognitive functioning
•At least two features of his work are widely recognized:
Stages of cognitive development
Sensor motor Stage
(birth to about 2 years)
•Explore the world through senses and motor activity
•Perception, cause and effect, follow things with eyes
Preoperational Stage (2 to about 7 years old)
• Greater speech abilities
• Numerical abilities
• Still fairly egocentric
Concrete Operational Stage (7 to about 11)
• Increase in abstract reasoning
• Children can do conservation tasks
Formal Operations Stage (12 to about 15 years old)
• Children can form hypotheses and reason scientifically
• Can show results of abstract thinking in the form of symbolic materials
Processes of cognitive functioning
“Desequilibrium”
Assimilation Accomodation