1. Cognitive Development and Jean Piaget
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2. Video
Piaget Overview

3. Sensory Motor (Birth-2)

4. Characteristics Learn through their senses
Develop object permanence by the end of this stage
Sensory Motor Overview

5. Pre-Operational Stage (2-6)

6. Characteristics
Language development is an important task of this period
Child relies on intuition
Animism
egocentric
Answer “what” but not “why” questions
Understand that drawings or words stand for something
Understanding of past and future
lack of conservation

7. Concrete Operational Stage (7-11)

8. Characteristics Can reason deductively
Still cannot reason abstractly nor do problem solving in their head
Capable of conservation, seriation, and classification
Conservation

9. Formal Operational Stage (12+)

10. Characteristics Mastery of Thought Abstract reasoning
Can answer “how” and “why” questions
Formal Operational thought

11. Hypothetical reasoning Extended thinking or mental leaps
There are seven cognitive processes a formal operational thinker can do better than a concrete one:
Logic
Abstract reasoning
Hypothetical reasoning
Extended thinking or mental leaps
Projective thinking
Metacognitive thinking
Reflective thinking

12. Cognitive development according to piaget

13. Cognitive Learning Theory
Cognition: the mental process by which knowledge is acquired
stimulus (the questions)
Response (the answer)
Cognition (the thought process)

14. Three steps to understanding Piaget’s theory:
Reflexes: simple blocks of cognition that help infants to adapt
Sucking, grasping
Sucking (rooting) reflex
Grasping reflex

15. Piaget believed people learn in the following ways:
Assimilation: fitting new information into an already existing schema
Accommodation: adjusting schema to fit new situations or demands; adjusting existing knowledge to accommodate new information

16. Equilibrium
Balance between the learner and his environment (assimilation and accommodation)
because some children can reach equilibrium faster, they are able to advance more quickly in logic development

17. Learner-Centered
Piaget’s theory emphasizes the need for the learner to participate in the learning
Learner must explore, manipulate, experiment, question, and search
Learning is a social process that is enhanced through collaboration and peer interaction
Teachers take more of the role of facilitator