Piaget's Stages of Development questions and answers all are correct 2024 graded A+

What is Cognitive Development? - Answer-Child's child's thought, language, and intelligence. Who is Jean Piaget? - Answer-Jean Piaget is the father of cognitive development, he noticed that children around the same age tend to make the same mistakes. Jean Piaget then observed children and he proposed a sequence of development that all normal children follow. He believed there are 4 STAGES of cognitive development. Conservation - Answer-A conceptual tool - Ability to recognize that objects can be transformed in some way, visually or physically, yet still be the same in numbers, volumes, weight, liquid, or matter. Assimilation - Answer-The way children incorporate (take in) new information with existing schemes to form new cognitive structures. EX: Child calls lion a "doggie" bc the child only knows one type of 4 legged animal Accomodation - Answer-With more interaction in the world - child takes existing schemes and adjusts them to fit their experience. EX: Child plays with keys on piano to hear different notes and learns he must turn piano on to play Piaget's Cognitive Learning Process - Answer-1. all thinking begins at balanced mental state of equilibrium 2. child receives new info 3. child adapts new info assimilation/ accommodation 4. new thought (schema) is formed What is Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Development? - Answer-1. Sensorimotor- infancy (0- 2 yrs) 2. Preoperational- early childhood (2-7 yrs) 3. Concrete Operation- middle childhood (7-11 yrs)4. Formal Operation- adolescence (12 yrs- adult) Sensorimotor - Answer-Age: 0-2 (Infancy-Toddler) - Egocentric (thinking only one self) - Starting unds symbolic thought - Organizes thoughts by schemas -The time where babies experience the world through their senses and actions. (grabbing, looking, touching, hearing, putting things in their mouth - mostly) -Successful in object permanence by 18-24 months Language during Sensorimotor - Answer-- Speaks first word by 1 year old - First sentence (two words) by 18-24 months Preoperational (2-4) - Answer-Age: 2-4 (Early Childhood - Preschool - Kindergarten) - Egocentric (thinking only one self) - Casual reasoning (toddler believes his thoughts could cause actions) - Centration (focus on one thing at a time) - See the world as symbolic images & object - Mastery of symbols (pretending and play) Language during Preoperational (2-4) - Answer-- Declarative (tell) language "I am hungry" - Vocabulary about 1,000 Preoperational (5-7) - Answer-Age: 5-7 (Early Childhood - Preschool - Kindergarten) - No longer egocentric. Understand others can have a different perspective. - Intuitive reasoning (self-thinking)- Representational thought - Can classify by two criteria (shape and color) - Understand conservation except liquid - Can count to 20 using fingers