PIAGET Childhood Developments

PIAGET  FAMOUS researcher in children’s mental development  Believed that people organized new information in two ways: assimilation and accommodation.  Assimilation – new information is placed into categories that already exist. All fuzzy things with four legs are a puppy  Accommodation – a change to a category or the creation of a new category based on information

PUPPY

PUPPY?

SENSORIMOTOR STAGE  Piaget believed children’s cognitive development occurred in stages.  Newborns behavior is mostly based on reflexes  Sensorimotor Stage (age 0-2): when infants make connections between their physical movements and the results they perceive and sense. If I shake the rattle, the noise will continuethe rattle If I push the ball, it will roll

SENSORIMOTOR STAGE  Object Permanence: at about 8 to 10 months children realize that objects still exist when they can no longer see them  Sensorimotor stage ends when kids begin to use language

PREOPERATIONAL STAGE  Preoperational Stage: thinking is in one dimension, (they see only one aspect of a event at a time) For example, they focus only on the look of an object, they can’t think past that.object (Ages 2-7)  Egocentrism – the inability to see another person’s point of view (not selfish b/c they don’t understand) Assume other people see the world as they do Everything that happens to me, happens to you  Animistic- giving human traits to objects, “Trees have leaves to keep them warm. My car goes to sleep at night just like me.”  Artificialistic: natural events are caused by people. “The sky is blue because someone painted it”

CONCRETE-OPERATIONAL STAGE  Concrete-Operational Stage (ages 7-12): begin to show signs of adult thinking, but can’t grasp abstract thought yet. Teachers do hands on lessons to help students learn at this stagehands  Children are less egocentric. They understand that not everyone sees and experiences what the child sees/experiences.

FORMAL OPERATIONAL STAGE  Formal Operational Stage (age 12 to adulthood): people are able to think abstractly. Algebra makes sense! 3x = 9, what is x?  They can focus on multiple aspects of a situation at the same time.focus  People can think ahead and handle hypothetical situations

ACTIVITY  You are going to make your own baby book  The book can be for a fictional baby or you can make it for yourself. Fictional baby should be born in 1994 to make them 18 by now  The first page should say the child’s name, birth date and any other information you want displayed  Each page of the baby book will be demonstrate the baby displaying some of Piaget’s characteristics of a development stage.

ACTIVITY CONT’D  For example, Jaquan demonstrates sensorimotor stage! On this page you could show a baby playing with a rattle Include the proper age of the child at this stage Underneath your picture you could explain why this illustration demonstrates this stage. Remember to use F.E.R (Fact, Example, and Reason)  You may use illustrations or pictures. The pages should be visually appealing and informative. You may bring in any art supplies from home to work on this assignment  You will have time in class to work on this assignment.