COGNITIVE

DEVELOPMENT OF
PRIMARY
SCHOOLERS
 WHEN COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT IS
MENTIONED, WHAT COMES UP TO
YOUR MIND?
It is when a child is starting/learning to..
 Talk

 Identify
colours, shapes, numbers etc..
 Determine hot and cold

 Analyse things and so on..

 WITH THE ADVENT OF
COMPUTER AGE, DO YOU
THINK COGNITIVE
DEVELOPMENT IS AFFECTED?
JEAN PIAGET
 A foremost theorist when it comes to cognitive
development. According to him, intelligence is the
basic mechanism of ensuring balance in the relations
between the person and the environment. For him,
intellectual ability is not the same at different ages.

PIAGET’S 4 STAGES OF COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT

 Stage 1: Sensori-motor Stage
 Stage 2: Pre-operational Stage
 Stage 3: Concrete-operational Stage
 Stage 4: Formal Operational Stage
CONCRETE-OPERATIONAL STAGE
 The 3rd stage in Piaget’s Theory
 Covers approximately from ages 8-11 years or
Primary Schoolers
 Children have better understanding of their thinking
skills
 Children have begin to think logically about concrete
events, particularly on their own experiences, but have
difficulty in understanding abstract, or hypothetical
concept, thus, most of them still have a hard time at
problem solving.
LOGIC
 Children on this stage can use Inductive logic ,
involves thinking from experience to general principle.
But at this stage, children have difficulty in using
Deductive logic, using a general principle to determine
the outcome of a specific event.

REVERSIBILITY
 One of the most important development in this stage
is understanding of reversibility, or awareness that
actions can be reverse.

 Ex. 3+4=7 and 7-4=3

COGNITIVE MILESTONE

 Children develop certain skill within a particular time

frame.
 Skills they learn are in a sequential manner , meaning,
they need to understand numbers before they can
understand the mathematical equation.
 Each milestone develop is dependent upon the
previous milestone they achieve.
 Until age 8, skills they learn starts to level off and it
usually is a steady increase of new skills.
INFORMATION-PROCESSING SKILLS

 Several theorists argue that like the computer, the

human mind is a system that can process information
through the application of logical rules and strategies.
 They also believe that the mind receives information,
perform operation to change its form and content,
stores and locates it and generates reposes from it.
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