The Four Stages
Sensorimotor, Preoperational, Concrete Operational, and Formal Operational
What are the four stages of Piaget's congnitive development?
Understanding that an object exsists even when you cannot see it.
What is Object Permanence?
A baby watches a toy being hidden under a blanket. The baby then reaches under the blanket to find it. What ability is the baby demonstrating?
What is object permanence, associated with the Sensorimotor Stage?
Sensorimotor Stage
what is the stage of cognitive development that occurs from approcimately birth to age 2
Using one object, image, or symbol to represent something else such as pretending a banana is a telephone.
What is symbolic thinking?
A 4 year old pretends that a cardboard box is a race car and makes engine nosies while playing. What stage does this represent and what ability is being demonstrated?
What is Preoperational stage; Symbolic Thinking
What is Preoperational Stage?
Egocentrisim in Piaget's theory.
What is difficulty understanding that another person may see or experience the world differently?
a 10 year old notices every time they skip their homework, their grade gets worse. They begin to understand that their actions affect their grades. What stage does this represent and what type of thinking is being demonstrated?
What is Concrete Operational stage; understanding cause and effect?
What are the age ranges for each of the devlopment stages? Formal Operational, Sensorimotor, Concrete Operational, Preoperational.
What is Sensorimotor: Birth to 2 years old, Preoperational: 2-7, Concrete Operational: 7-11, Formal Operational: 12 and older.
The difference between inductive reasoning and deductive reeasoning.
What is inductive reasoning uses specifc exxamples to develop a general rule and Deductive reasoning starts with a general rule and applies it to a specifc situation?
A child believes that everyone in the classroom can see the same thing they see from their seat, even though another student is sitting behind a large object. What stage does this most likely represent and what characteristic explains the behavior?
What is Preoperational stage; Egocentrism
A student is 9 years old. They can understand cause and effect, recognize that other people have different persepectives and solve problems involving real-life situations. However, they struggle with abstract and hypothetical ideas. Which stage are they in, and what is the major limitation of their thinking?
Concrete Operational Stage. Their logical thinking works best with concrete, observable or familiar situations. Abstract and hypothetical thinking is still developing.
Metacognition. Give an example of how a student might use it while completing a difficult assignment.
What is thinking about your own thinking? A student realizes their original approach to a problem is not working, reflects on why, and changes their strategy?
2 students are give the following challenge: "what would happen if gravity suddenly dissapered?" Student A explains the situations they have personally experienced and student B develops several hypotheical possibilities and logically explains the possible consequences. Which student shows Formal Operational thinking and what 2 abilities are being shown.
What is Student B. They show hypothetical thinking and logical reasoning.