Piaget's Cognitive Development Theory

Piaget's Cognitive Development Theory

1. Sensorimotor Intelligence

   • First Two years of human life
   • Using sense for learning
     • Sight
       • Colors
       • Shapes
     • Taste
       • Edible Playdough
       • Edible Paint
       • Food
     • Touch
       • Finger Painting
       • Textures
     • Smell
       • Food
       • Unpleasant (such as dirty clothes)
   • Using motor skills for learning
     • Crawling
     • Climbing
     • Kicking a ball
     • Catching things (ex: a ball)
     • Stand on one foot
     • Walking
   • up to 2 years of age

2. Concrete Operational Stage

   • Middle childhood
     • 7-11 years old
   • Able to use logic
     • Thoughts become organized
   • Rational thoughts develop
   • Seek rules and structure
   • Longer conversations
     • Mass
     • Length
     • Weight
     • Volume
   • Organization and classification
     • Order series

3. Preoperational Stage of Development

   • Using words
   • Understanding some words
   • Being able to recall words symbolically
   • Understand some symbols
     • Recall the symbols but not understand logically
   • Toddler to 7years old
     • 2 years old to 7 years old
   • Imagination
     • Engage in make-believe
     • Memory
       • Past and future

4. Formal Operational Stage

   • Adolscents
     • 11-12 through teens
   • Able to understand theories
   • Able to understand abstract ideas
   • Predict possible outcomes
     • Hypothetical problems
   • Tasks approached systematically
     • Testing variables
       • Trial and error
         • Hypothesis
   • Able to seen relationship between things
   • Manipulate objects
   • Metacognition
   • Adulthood
   • Able to solve math problems easier
     • Word Problems that cannot be easily visualized
     • Negative Numbers

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