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Piaget’s Theory of Intellectual Development
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Sensorimotor Ages: Birth – 1½ years
Description: Children learn through their senses and their own actions. Object Permanence: an object still exists even if you can’t see it. Learning to control body Egocentric thinking
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Preoperational Ages: 2-7 years
Description: Children view the world based only on their own experiences and how things appear to and affect them. Seriation – Being able to put things in order Representational Thought: understanding that symbols have meaning.
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Concrete Operations Ages: 7-11 years
Description: Children can think logically, but still make decisions based on their own experience. More socialized thinking, less egocentric Conservation: the amount of something stays the same even if the shape changes.
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Formal Operations Ages: 11-death
Description: People can understand facts outside of their experience. Understand deeper meanings and problem solving without actually experiencing the problem. Abstract thinking (intangible) Hypothetical thinking (supposed, theoretical)
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