piaget

• Jean William Fritz Piaget created cognitive development and he is a swiss psychologist known for his work on child development.
• schemas is a mental structures that help us organize information
• adaptation is a type of schema that explains how persons understand and learn new information
• assimilation is the process of incorporating new information into existing schemas
• accommodation is the process of adjusting existing schemas to incorporate new knowledge or information
• equilibration is the drive for cognitive balance between assimilation and accommodation
• six sub-stages of sensorimotor

  1. Reflexes
  2. Primary Circular Reactions
  3. Secondary Circular Reactions
  4. Coordination of Reactions
  5. Tertiary Circular Reactions
  6. Early Representational Thought
• reflexes (0-1 month)- inborn reflexes
• Primary Circular Reactions (1-4 Months) - coordinating sensation and new schemas
• Secondary Circular Reactions (4-8 months) - intentionally repeat an action
• Coordination of Reactions (8-12 months) - clearly intentional actions
• Tertiary Circular Reactions (12-18 months) - period of trial and error experimentation.
• Early Representational Thought (18-24 months) - develop symbols to represent events or objects in the world
• 4 stages of cognitive development of piaget

  1. sensorimotor stage
  2. preoperational stage
  3. concreate operational stage
  4. formal operational stage
• preoperational stage (2-7 y/o)

  • children develop language and abstract thought
  • starts to think symbolically
  • thinking is still intuitive and egocentric
• concreate operational Stage (7-11 y/o)

  • children become more literal-minded, logical, and organized, but still concreate
• formal operation stage (11 & above)

  • formation of abstract & scientific reasoning
  • learn more sophisticated rules of logic
  • metacognition