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Piagets Stages
Sensorimotor stage (birth to 2 years)
Knowledge develops through sensory and motor
abilities.
Piagets Stages
Sensorimotor stage (birth to 2 years)
Preoperational stage (2 to 7 years)
Knowledge is represented by language, mental imagery,
and symbolic thought.
Piagets Stages
Sensorimotor stage (birth to 2 years)
Preoperational stage (2 to 7 years)
Concrete operational stage (7 to 12 years)
Children can reason logically about concrete objects and events.
Piagets Stages
Sensorimotor Stage
Preoperational Stage
Symbolic representations - the use of one
object to stand for another.
Egocentrism: Looking at the world only from
ones own point of view.
Centration: Focusing on one dimension of
objects or events and on static states rather
than transformations.
Egocentrism
Centrism
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Conservation Concepts
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Stages
Sensorimotor
Preoperational
Concrete
operational
Formal
operational
Birth2 years
27 years
712 years
12 years
onward
Understands
world
through
senses and
actions
Understands
world
through
language and
mental
images
Understands
world
through
logical
thinking and
categories
Understands
world
through
hypothetical
thinking and
scientific
reasoning
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