Piagets Stages of Cognitive Development How do we

Piagets Stages of Cognitive Development How do we develop mentally?

Sensorimotor Stage (birth – 2 yrs old) o Info is gained through the senses and motor actions

Object Permanence o The understanding that objects exist independent of one’s actions or perceptions of them o http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=Nj. Bh 9 ld_y. Io

Preoperational Stage (2 -7 years) o Emergence of symbolic thought o Egocentrism- “ Does your sister have a sister” o http: //bcs. worthpublishers. com/psychsim 5/Cogni tive%20 Development/Psych. Sim_Shell. html o Lack the concept of conservation

Conservation Tasks o http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=Yt. LE WVu 815 o

Concrete Operational Stage (7 -12 years) o Can Conserve Mass, Weight and Numbers o Classification and categorization o Less egocentric o Inability to reason abstractly or hypothetically o http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=lw 36 Pp. YPPZM

Formal Operational Stage (age 12 - adulthood) o Hypothetical-deductive reasoning o Pendulum Problem o Adolescent egocentrism illustrated by the phenomenon of personal fable and imaginary audience

Personal Fable…. o “Nobody understands me. " o "My parents just don't know what I'm going through-- what do they know about what it's like being a teenager? " o "You just don't know how it feels. " o "I just got dumped by the girl I love, and nobody could ever experience the crushing sadness I'm going through. "

Imaginary Audience… o On Stage feeling in Adolescence

Critique of Piaget’s Theory o Underestimates children’s abilities o Underestimates the role of the social environment o Lack of evidence for qualitatively different stages