Life of Piaget
Key Concepts of Piaget
Stages of Cognitive Development 1
Stages of Cognitive Development 2
Application of Piaget's Theory
100

Piaget's first name

What is Jean?

100

Mental framework used to understand the world

What is Schema?

100

First 2 stages of cognitive development

What is Sensorimotor Stage and Preoperational Stage?

100

Last 2 stages of cognitive development

What is Concrete Operational Stage and Formal Operational Stage?

100

Type of learning and instruction encouraged by Theory of Cognitive Development

What is hands-on and play-based?

200

Piaget's career field

What is psychology?

200

Adding new information to an existing schema

What is Assimilation?

200

Age range of Concrete Operational Stage

What is 7-11?

200

Age range of Preoperational Stage

What is 2-7?

200

Activities to support the Sensorimotor Stage

What are sensory bins, block stacking, peek-a-boo, and music and movement?

300

Piaget's birth year

What is 1896?

300

Changing a schema based on new information

What is Accomodation?

300

Age range of Sensorimotor Stage

What is 0-2?

300

Age range of Formal Operational Stage

What is 12 and older?

300

Activities to support Preoperational stage

What are dramatic play centers, story time, drawing, emotion-identification, and encouraging students to share, communicate, and consider others? 

400

Piaget's year of death

What is 1980?

400

Balancing assimilation and accommodation as thinking develops

What is Equilibrium?

400

Developmental stage where children develop logical thinking, an understanding of cause and effect, are able to make strong connections between ideas and have improved categorization and organization

What is Concrete Operational stage?
400

Development stage where a child learns through senses and movement, develops object permanence and basic motor skills

What is Sensorimotor Stage?

400

Activities to support Concrete Operational Stage

What are math manipulatives, group projects, asking thought-provoking questions, teaching structured writing strategies, and facilitating activities that promote logical thinking?

500

Piaget's home country

What is Switzerland?

500

Theory that states knowledge is built through experiences and ideas

What is Constructivism?

500

Developmental stage where children learn through pretend play and social interaction, have rapid growth in language and communication, develop imagination and symbolic thinking, and often show egocentric thinking

What is Preoperational stage?

500

Developmental stage where children use abstract/ hypothetical thinking and scientific reasoning, are able to handle more complex ideas and problems, and strengthen critical and analytical thinking

What is Formal Operational Stage?

500

Activities to Support Formal Operational Stage

What are science experiments and research presentations, debates, socratic seminars, student-led discussion, reading comprehension activities, and encouraging students to have creativity and critical thinking?