jean piaget’s theories

Practice II

Marrón MatiasGueler Ana Carolina

Jean Piaget’s Theories: Cognitive

Development in Children

• Piaget studied how knowledge begins and develops in individuals.

Stages of cognitive development

Processes of cognitive functioning

•At least two features of his work are widely recognized:

Stages of cognitive development

Sensor motor Stage

(birth to about 2 years)

•Explore the world through senses and motor activity

•Perception, cause and effect, follow things with eyes

Preoperational Stage (2 to about 7 years old)

• Greater speech abilities

• Numerical abilities

• Still fairly egocentric

Concrete Operational Stage (7 to about 11)

• Increase in abstract reasoning

• Children can do conservation tasks

Formal Operations Stage (12 to about 15 years old)

• Children can form hypotheses and reason scientifically

• Can show results of abstract thinking in the form of symbolic materials

Processes of cognitive functioning

“Desequilibrium”

Assimilation Accomodation