1. SECTION 4: COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT PIAGET
JEAN PIAGET
Famous for his theory of __________________________:
HOW DO CHILDREN DEVELOP IN THEIR THINKING?
Demonstration: Assimilation and Accommodation

2. SECTION 4: COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT PIAGET
PIAGET BELIEVED WE
ORGANIZE INFORMATION
IN TWO WAYS:
ASSIMILATION:
Example: A collie and a great dane are both “doggies”
ACCOMMODATION:
Example: A kitten is not the same as a doggie

3. SECTION 4: COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT Piaget’s 4 Stages of Cognitive Development

4. SECTION 4: COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT Piaget’s 4 Stages of Cognitive Development
STAGE 1: SENSORIMOTOR
Birth-age 2
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No Object Permanence (until 10 months old):

5. SECTION 4: COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT Piaget’s 4 Stages of Cognitive Development
STAGE 2: PREOPERATIONAL
Age 2-7
Fairy tales, Santa
Understand _____________________________
_________________________: Water glass experiment—Kids can’t understand that something can change shape and still be the same amount
You Tube Video for Conservation:
______________________: Can’t see another person’s point of view
You Tube Video for Egocentrism:

6. SECTION 4: COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT Piaget’s 4 Stages of Cognitive Development
Thinking grounded in concrete experiences; seeing, touching manipulating objects
Do not fully understand abstract ideas
Understand distances, time
Understand conservation
Less egocentric
You Tube Video for Concrete Operational:

7. SECTION 4: COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT Piaget’s 4 Stages of Cognitive Development
Age 11-adulthood
Can understand abstract ideas and hypothetical situations
Can do complex activities such as drive a car, algebra, have a job
You Tube Video for Formal Operational:

8. SECTION 4: COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT KOHLBERG’S THEORY OF MORAL DEVELOPMENT
KOHLBERG’S THEORY OF MORAL DEVELOPMENT: Why do people do the right, good thing?
_______________________: Young children believe that what is “good” is what helps them _______________________.
__________________________: Older children believe “good” means __________ _________________________
_______________________: Adolescents and adults do “good” because it is “______ ________________________.”

9. KOHLBERG: Stages of Moral Development
_____________________ – Level of moral development in which moral judgments are based on fear of punishment or desire for pleasure
____________________ – Level of moral development at which a person makes judgments based on conventional standards of right and wrong
_____________________ – Level of moral development during which moral judgments are derived from a person’s own moral standards