1. Piaget’s Cognitive Stages of Development
Sections 1 and 2, HDFS 129
Cody Grimm

3. How did Piaget Study?
Piaget Studied his own children, and developed his Cognitive Developmental approach from these observations.
We build our own version of the world

4. Processes of Development
Schemes
Organization
Assimilation & Accommodation
Disequilibrium

5. Schemes First step to building your own view in the world
Your Newborn Brain=

6. Organization
Refers to the organization of thought and behaviors into an overall category.
DRIVING

7. Assimilation
The use of your existing schemes to classify information. + =

8. Accommodation
The adjustment of schemes to make room for new information. + =

9. Disequilibrium
Is an imbalance of what’s understood and what’s encountered.

10. Cognitive Development Stages
Sensorimotor Stage
6 Substages
Preoperational Stage
2 Substages
Concrete Operational Stage
Formal Operational Stage

11. Sensorimotor Stage Lasts from birth to 2 years of life
Infants begin to understand the world through use of movement and their senses

12. Substage 1: Simple Reflexes
First month after birth
Coordination comes from reflexive behaviors
Rooting
Sucking
Actively structuring experiences

13. Substage 2: First Habits and Primary Circular Reactions
Develops between 1 and 4 months
Coordinates by two schemes:
Habit
Circular Reaction

14. Substage 3: Secondary Circular Reactions
Develops between 4 to 8 months
More object oriented
Repetition due to consequences

15. Substage 4: Coordination of Secondary Circular Reactions
Develops between 8 and 12 months
Infants coordinate vision and touch, hand and eyes
Coordination of schemes

16. Substage 5: Tertiary Circular Reactions, Novelty, and Curiosity
Develops between 12 and 18 months
Intrigued by actions they can make happen
Schemes develop further

17. Substage 6: Internalization of Schemes
Develops between 18 to 24 months
Infants are able to use primitive symbols
Expression of events in simple ways

18. Sensorimotor: Errors
Object Permanence
The A-Not-B Error

19. Object Permanence
The understanding that objects continue to exist even when they cannot be seen, heard, or touched.
Infants most important accomplishment!

20. A-Not-B Error

21. Preoperational Stage Lasts from approximately 2 to 7 years of age
Children begin to represent the world with words, images, and drawings—begin to form stable concepts and reasoning

22. Substage 1: Symbolic Function
Occurs between 2 and 4
Ability to mentally represent objects that are not present
Two activities within this stage:
Egocentrism
Animism

23. Substage 2: Intuitive Thought
From about 4 to 7 years old
Children begin to use primitive reasoning, and want to know the answers to A LOT of questions

24. Preoperational: Errors
Centration
Conservation
Number
Matter
Length

25. Centration
Is the key focus on one characteristics at the exclusion of all others
Key concept for preoperational errors
Conservation
The awareness that altering a items basic appearance does not change the basic properties

26. Conservation: Number

27. Conservation: Matter

28. Conservation: Length

29. Concrete Operational Stage
Lasts approximately from 7 to 11 years of age
Children can operate concretely, and reason logically, as long as it can be applied to something specific.

30. Concrete Operational Continued
Activities associated:
Seriation
Transitivity A B C

31. Formal Operational Stage
Final Piagetian Stage
Lasts approximately from 11 to 15 years of age
Individuals move beyond concrete thought to more abstract and logical thinking.

32. Abstract, Idealistic, and Logical Thinking
Quality of abstract thinking: “I began thinking about why I was thinking about what I was. Then I began thinking about why I was thinking about what I was thinking about what I was.”
Extended thoughts about their own desires and what ideal characteristics they strive for
Use of hypothetical-deductive reasoning

33. Adolescent Egocentrism
Heightened self-consciousness, and the hope that others accept you simply by who you are.
Adolescent Egocentrism falls into two categories
Imaginary Audience
Personal Fable

34. Imaginary Audience The feeling that one is the center of the stage
Very present in early adolescents

35. Personal Fable Sense of personal uniqueness and invincibility
No one truly understands them
Invincibility
Engagement in risky behavior

36. Summary