Sensorimotor Stage
How many sensorimotor substages are there?
6
How many substages are there in the preoperational stage?
None!
No!
Is the formal operations stage the last stage of Piaget's cognitive development stages?
Yes
They directly acting on their surroundings with their eyes, hands and mouth
What is the age range for the sensorimotor stage?
Birth to 2 years old
What is the age range for the preoperational stage?
2 to 7 years
What is the age range of the concrete operational stage?
7 to 11 years
What is the age range of the formal operations stage?
11 years and onwards
What is the second sensorimotor substage called?
Primary circular reactions
What is the third substage called?
Secondary circular reactions
During this stage, what is there an incredible increase of?
Mental representation and symbolic activity
What is the term where children can order items according to their quantitative dimension?
Seriation
What kind of thoughts do children have at this stage?
Abstract and systematic thoughts
In the fourth sensorimotor substage, what are the behaviors like?
Intentional and goal-directed
What is the name of the ability to to find objects that have been move to a location that is out of sight?
Invisible displacement
Make-believe play
What do children develop from having mental representations of spaces?
Spatial reasoning, cognitive maps
What system allows children to make inferences?
Reasoning system
The sixth stage
What is the name of the ability to find objects that were hidden in the first location?
Object permanence
According to Piaget, what is the purpose of make-believe/sociodramatic play?
To practice newly acquired representational schemes
What is the term for when children can seriate mentally?
Transitive inference
What is the stage after the formal operations stage?
There is none
What is are the actions aimed at in the third sensorimotor substage (secondary circular actions)?
Actions are aimed at repeating interesting effects and there is an imitation of behaviors that are familiar