Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Development

PIAGET

INFORMATION PROCESSING

SOCIOCULTURAL

- constructivist = child as scientist

Stage 1: Sensorimotor birth - 2yrs

- action based reasoning

Stage 2: Preoperational 2-7yrs

-symbolic thought

Stage 3: Concrete Operations 7-11yrs

-logical thought

Stage 4: Formal Operations 11+

-abstract thought

Change Mechanisms:

-assimilation: interpret new information using existing schemas

-accommodation: adjust or create new schemas when new info doesn't fit into existing schema

-equilibration: internal integration

-used to consolidate info to put into framework

-social transmission: people can explain things to you but there is a limit - need to figure out for themselves