STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT

• What are the 4 stages of cognitive development

  Sensorimotor stage

  Preoperational stage

  Concrete operational stage

  Formal operational stage
• sensorimotor stage

  birth - 2

  acquire object permanence

  Can’t name specific things yet eg ‘drinking’ for all drinks
• preoperational stage

  2-7

  use paralinguistic features to make up for gaps in language about complex abstract ideas

  more spatial awareness and perspective
• Concrete operational stage

  7-11

  Concepts are being understood so vocabulary can be used to explain.

  Mentally reverse things
• formal operational stage

  12+

  full understanding of abstract ideas