JEAN PIAGET

AND COGNITIVE
LEARNING
Prepared by: Norie Jane
Pumarejos
Born: August 9, 1896, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Died: September 16, 1980, Geneva, Switzerland
Education: University of Neuchâtel (1918),
University of Zurich (1919)
 COGNITIVE LEARNING THEORY

• Cognitive learning theory focuses on the internal

processes surrounding information and memory.
• Cognitive development and learning involves
continuous reorganisation of the mental
processes of biological maturation and
experience with the environment.
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 Stage of Knowledge Development
1. Sensorimotor stage (0-2)
2. Pre-Operational Stage (2-7)
3. Concrete Operational Stage (7-11)
4. Formal Operational Stage (11-16)
1. Sensorimotor Stage

Children learn primarily through their senses and motor

actions.Children begin to use imitation, memory and thought.
They begin to recognize that objects do not cease to exist when
they are hidden from view.
2. Preoperational Stage

Children gradually develop

language and the ability to think in
symbolic form. They are able to think operations
through logically in one direction and they have
difficulty seeing another persons point of view.
 3. Concrete
Operational Stage

Children are able to solve

concrete (hands-on) problems in
logical fashion.
 4. FORMAL OPERATIONAL
STAGE

Ages of 11 to
4. Formal Operational
adulthood, Stage children are able to solve abstract
problems in logical fashion. Their thinking becomes
Adolescents and adults think abstractly,
more scientific,
form hypotheses, they develop concerns about social
and use deductive
issues and about identity.
reasoning, unlocking their full cognitive
potential.
 Implication to the teaching of
mathematics
Piaget (1968) pointed out that every normal
student is capable of good mathematical reasoning
if attention (and care) is directed to activities of his
interest, and if by this method the emotional
inhibitions that too often give him a feeling of
inferiority in lessons in mathematics are removed.
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