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Title: Jean Piaget August 9, 1896 September 16, 1980


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Jean PiagetAugust 9, 1896 September 16, 1980
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Bio
  • Jean Piaget (August 9, 1896 - September 16,
    1980), a professor of psychology at the
    University of Geneva from 1929 to 1954, was a
    French Swiss developmental psychologist who is
    most well known for organizing cognitive
    development into a series of stages.

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Piaget outlines four stages of cognitive
development
  • 1. Sensorimotor (Birth 2 years)
  • 2. Preoperational (2 6 years)
  • 3. Concrete Operational (6 11 years)
  • 4. Formal Operational (11years adulthood)

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These four stages have the following
characteristics
  • 1. invariant (constant) sequence
  • 2. universal (not culturally specific)
  • 3. related to cognitive (mental) development
  • 4. generalizable to other functions

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characteristics
  • 5. stages are logically organized wholes
  • 6. hierarchical nature of stage sequences (each
    successive stage incorporates elements of
    previous stages, but is more differentiated and
    integrated)
  • 7. stages represent qualitative (quality)
    differences in modes of thinking, not merely
    quantitative (quantity/amount) differences

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Sensorimotor stage
  • Infancy (Birth - 2 years)
  • Has 6 stages
  • Intelligence is demonstrated through motor
    activity
  • Knowledge of the world is limited (but
    developing) because its based on physical
    interactions / experiences.
  • Children acquire object permanence at about 7
    months of age (memory).
  • Physical development (mobility) allows the child
    to begin developing new intellectual abilities.
  • Some symbolic (language) abilities are developed
    at the end of this stage.

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Pre-operational stage
  • Toddler and Early Childhood (2 - 6 years)
  • Has two substages
  • Symbolic function
  • 2-4 years
  • Intelligence is demonstrated through the use of
    symbols
  • Egocentrism
  • animism

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Animism
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Preoperational stage (cont.)
  • Language use matures
  • Memory and imagination are developed
  • Thinking is done in a nonlogical, nonreversable
    manner
  • Egocentric thinking predominates

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Concrete operational stage
  • Elementary and early adolescence (6-11)
  • Characterized by 7 types of conservation
  • Number
  • Length
  • Liquid
  • Mass
  • Weight
  • Area
  • Volume
  • intelligence is demonstarted through logical and
    systematic manipulation of symbols related to
    concrete objects.
  • Operational thinking develops (mental actions
    that are reversible). Egocentric thought
    diminishes.

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Formal operational stage
  • Adolescence and adulthood
  • intelligence is demonstrated through the logical
    use of symbols related to abstract concepts
  • Early in the period there is a return to
    egocentric thought.
  • Only 35 of high school graduates in
    industrialized countries obtain formal
    operations many people do not think formally
    during adulthood.

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Teaching the Preoperational Child(Toddler and
Early Childhood)
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Presentation
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Giving instructions
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Perspective
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Practice
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Hands on Experiences
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Experience the world
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