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

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

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

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

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: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtLEWVu815o ______________________: Can’t see another person’s point of view You Tube Video for Egocentrism: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OinqFgsIbh0&feature=related

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: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpUAmtLz-G8

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: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw36PpYPPZM

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 “______ ________________________.”

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