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2 to 7 years old. Development of language, memory, and imagination. Intelligence is both egocentric and intuitive. Symbolic thought. Concrete operational. 7 to 11 years old. More logical and ...
Jean Piaget in Ann Arbor. Piaget's theory of cognitive development, or his genetic epistemology, is a comprehensive theory about the nature and development of human intelligence. It was originated by the Swiss developmental psychologist Jean Piaget (1896–1980). The theory deals with the nature of knowledge itself and how humans gradually come ...
Piaget's four stages of intellectual (or cognitive) development are: Sensorimotor. Birth through 2 years old. Preoperational. Toddlerhood through early childhood (2-7 years old) Concrete ...
Jean William Fritz Piaget (UK: / piˈæʒeɪ /, [1][2] US: / ˌpiːəˈʒeɪ, pjɑːˈʒeɪ /; [3][4][5] French: [ʒɑ̃ pjaʒɛ]; 9 August 1896 – 16 September 1980) was a Swiss psychologist known for his work on child development. Piaget's theory of cognitive development and epistemological view are together called genetic epistemology.
Schema (psychology) In psychology and cognitive science, a schema (pl.: schemata or schemas) describes a pattern of thought or behavior that organizes categories of information and the relationships among them. [1][2] It can also be described as a mental structure of preconceived ideas, a framework representing some aspect of the world, or a ...
Concrete thinking is a kind of reasoning that relies heavily on what we observe in the physical world around us. It’s sometimes called literal thinking. Young children thinking concretely, but ...
The sensorimotor stage is the first of the four stages of Piaget’s theory of cognitive development. It is marked by a child’s knowledge that the outside world exists separately from themselves ...
This stage lasts from around age 2 until about age 7. Your toddler hits the preoperational stage between 18 to 24 months when they start to talk. As they build up their experiences of the world ...