Sensorimotor Stage
The sensorimotor stage is associated with this age group
What is birth to 2 years?
The Preoperational stage is associated with this age group
What is ages 2 to 7?
The concrete operational stage is associated with this age group
What is Ages 7 to 11?
The Formal Operational Stage is associated with this age group
What is ages 12 and up?
How many stage are there?
4
Basic Actions Examples: sucking, grasping, looking, listening
What is one of the main elements in this stage?
The emergence of language
What are the main characteristics of this stage?
What are the main characteristics of this stage?
They begin to think abstractly and reason about hypothetical problems, start think more morally, and also can plan for the future
What is the main point to remember about stage 1?
Growth and learning through interacting with their environment
Infants and toddlers continually make new discoveries about how the world works this is because of the dramatic period of ...
Growth and learning
What is different about the second stage compared to the first stage?
In the preoperational stage children gain better language and thinking, they learn through pretend play, however they still think very concretely about the world.
What begins to disappear when children enter this stage?
The idea of egocentrism, they become better at thinking about how different people view a solution
The term meaning reasoning from a general principle to specific information
Deductive logic
What is the main point to remember about stage 2?
Emergence of language, and learning with pretend play
They acquire knowledge through sensory experiences and manipulating objects
Divide chunk of clay into two equal parts, but children are more likely to pick the flattened spread out clay instead of the one rolled up in the ball, why?
this is an example of a concrete idea, the flattened out clay seem bigger to them so they are more likely to pick that one even if they are the exact same size.
The term meaning reasoning from specific information to a general principle
Inductive Logic
What would you categorize people in this age group?
adolescents (teenagers) and young adults
What is the main point to remember about stage 3?
Begin to use more logic
The understanding that objects continue to exist even when they can not be seen, which is a important element of the sensorimotor stage
What is object permanence?
The term used to describe children in this stage
Egocentric, think about themselves and struggle to see from the perspective of others
What is the name of the third stage
Concrete operational stage
What is the name of the fourth stage
Formal operational stage
What is the main point to remember about stage 4?
understanding abstract ideas