SENSORIMOTOR
How long does this stage span?
Birth -2 years
How long does this stage span?
2-7 Years of Age
How long does this stage span?
7-11 Years of Age
How Long does this Stage Span?
11 years of Age-Adulthood
How many substages are there?
6
What do Children Use to Represent their discoveries in the World?
Symbols
What Becomes logical, flexible, and better organized in children?
Their reasoning
What does thought become in this stage?
How do infants think in this stage?
By Acting on the world with their Eyes, Ears, Hands, and mouth
What Develops in this stage?
What are children more aware of in this stage?
Classification Hierarchies
What do Individuals' systematic Reasoning systems resemble?
One of the Adolescent and Adults
Name the First 3 substages
1. Reflexive schemes
2. Primary Circular
3. Secondary Circular Reactions
What Kind of Play Takes place during this Stage?
Make-believe play
Abstract Ideas
What can Adolescents now evaluate in this stage?
The logic of Verbal statements without referring to Real-world circumstances
Name the Last 3 Substages
4. Coordination of Secondary Circular Reactions
5. Tertiary Circular Reactions
6. Mental Representation
For Piaget, what is the most fundamental Deficiency of Preoperational Thinking?
Egocentrism, (failure to Distinguish the Symbolic Viewpoints of others from one's own)
According to Piaget, what leads Children to reach the concrete operational stage?
Brain development and Experience in rich and Varied external world
What are adolescents now able to do when faced with a problem?
Hypothesize, Deduce testable inferences, and Isolate and combine variables to which hypotheses are confirmed