Cognitive development

Cognitive development

1. SENSORY MOTOR STAGE (BIRTH - 2 YEARS) The Infant get the capacity to organice in relation to sensory and motor activities.

   • Piaget links three basic structures of the game, with the evolicionary structures of human thought: the game is simple exercise(like animate); the game is simbolic(abstract, fictitious); and the ruled game (colective, result of a grupal agreement)
     • The main caracteristic of the Sensory Motor phase is that the capacity of the child to represent and to understand the world is limited, but, the child learns things through activities, constant manipulation, and exploration

2. PREOPERATIONAL ( 2 - 7 YEARS) The Child develops a representational system of symbols that represent people, places or events. The language and game are imaginative and the thought is not logical.

   • Piaget mainly focused in cognition and didn't pay attention to the emotions or motivations of children. The main topic of his work is "inteligence" ir "logic" wich takes many forms while the person is growing.

3. FORMAL OPERATIONS (11 YEARS - MATURITY) The Person think in an abstract way, think logically, manage hypothetic situations and think about possibilities.

4. CONCRET OPERATIONS (7 - 11 YEARS) The Child is able to solve problems in a logical way if focus on now and here but cannot think in abstract terms.

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