Cognitive Development and Jean Piaget VTfT. Video Piaget Overview.

Cognitive Development and

Jean Piaget VTfT

Video

• Piaget Overview

Sensory Motor (Birth-2)

Characteristics

• Learn through their senses• Develop object permanence by

the end of this stage• Sensory Motor Overview

Pre-Operational Stage (2-6)

Characteristics• Language development is an important task

of this period• Child relies on intuition• Animism • egocentric• Answer “what” but not “why” questions• Understand that drawings or words stand for

something• Understanding of past and future• lack of conservation

Concrete Operational Stage (7-11)

Characteristics

• Can reason deductively• Still cannot reason abstractly nor

do problem solving in their head• Capable of conservation,

seriation, and classification• Conservation

Formal Operational Stage (12+)

Characteristics

• Mastery of Thought• Abstract reasoning• Can answer “how” and “why”

questions• Formal Operational thought

There are seven cognitive processes a formal operational thinker can do better

than a concrete one:

• Logic• Abstract reasoning• Hypothetical reasoning• Extended thinking or mental

leaps• Projective thinking• Metacognitive thinking• Reflective thinking

COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT ACCORDING TO PIAGET

Cognitive Learning Theory

• Cognition: the mental process by which knowledge is acquired

• stimulus (the questions)• Response (the answer)• Cognition (the thought process)

Three steps to understanding Piaget’s

theory:• Reflexes: simple blocks of

cognition that help infants to adapt

• Sucking, grasping• Sucking (rooting) reflex• Grasping reflex

Piaget believed people learn in the following ways:

• Assimilation: fitting new information into an already existing schema

• Accommodation: adjusting schema to fit new situations or demands; adjusting existing knowledge to accommodate new information

Equilibrium

• Balance between the learner and his environment (assimilation and accommodation)

• because some children can reach equilibrium faster, they are able to advance more quickly in logic development

Learner-Centered

• Piaget’s theory emphasizes the need for the learner to participate in the learning

• Learner must explore, manipulate, experiment, question, and search

• Learning is a social process that is enhanced through collaboration and peer interaction

• Teachers take more of the role of facilitator