KEY POINTS

PIAGET’S
STAGES OF COGNITIVE
DEVELOPMENT
JEAN PIAGET- was a Swiss first psychologist to
make a systematic study of cognitive development.
Piagetian Task- Piaget research method which involved
observing a small number of individuals as they responded
to cognitive tasks.
 BASIC COGNITIVE CONCEPTS

SCHEMA: basic building block of

intelligent: a way of organizing
knowledge
 BASIC COGNITIVE CONCEPTS

ASSIMILATION: process of taking

in new information into our previously
existing schema
 BASIC COGNITIVE CONCEPTS

ACCOMMODATION: when we
structure or modify what we already
know so that new information cam fit in
better.
 BASIC COGNITIVE CONCEPTS
EQUILIBRATION: The process of
finding balance. Individuals try to balance their
present understanding with new events or data
they encounter that conflict with what they know.

COGNITIVE DISEQUILIBRIUM:
When you come across information or experience
that do not fit into your current knowledge.
 PIAGET’S STAGES OF COGNITIVE
DEVELOPMENT

-suggest that children move through 4

different stages of mental development
-focus on understanding how children
acquire knowledge and nature of
intelligence
 SENSORI-MOTOR STAGE

- children go through a period of

dramatic growth and learning
- kids interact with their environment.
 MAJOR CHARACTERISTICS &
DEVELOPMENTAL CHANGES

- the infant knows the world through their movements

and sensations
-children learn about the world through basic actions
such as sucking, grasping, looking and listening
OBJECT PERMANENCE- learn that things
continue to exist even though they cannot be seen.
 PRE-OPERATIONA STAGE
(2-7YRS.OLD)

- foundations of language development may have been

laid during the previous stage.
-much more skilled in pretend play but still struggle
with logic and taking the point of view of other
people.
.
 MAJOR CHARACTERISTICS &
DEVELOPMENTAL CHANGES
 Children begin to think symbolically and learn to use
words and pictures to represent objects.
A.SYMBOLIC FUNCTION
B.EGOCENTRISM
C.CENTRATION
D.IRREVERSIBILITY
E.ANIMISM
F.TRANSDUCTIVE REASONING
 CONCRETE –OPERATIONAL STAGE
8-11 YRS. OLD

 children begin to think logically about concrete events.

A.DECENTERING
B.REVERSIBILITY
C.CONSERVATION
D. SERIATION
 FORMAL OPERATIONAL STAGE
12-15 YRS. OLD
-Adolescent begins to think abstractly and reason about
hypothetical about problems.
- Teens begin to think more about moral, philosophical,
ethical, social, and political issues that require theoretical
and abstract.
A. Hypothetical reasoning
B. Analogical reasoning
C. Deductive reasoning
 REMEMBER

-PIAGET’S THEORY takes the view that creating

knowledge and intelligence is an inherently active process.
It also stressed that children were not merely passive
recipients of knowledge instead, kids are constantly
investigating and experimenting as they build their
understanding of hoe the world works.