Jean Piaget’s Cognitive Theory of Development • _______ (having

the ability to
Three Basic Components of Piaget's Cognitive Theory: understand or
1. know something
2. Adaptation Processes (equilibration, assimilation, and without any
accommodation)
reasoning
3. Stages of Cognitive Development
process)
________ 1. an organized pattern of thoughts that • __________ is
establishes a mental framework that represents some the use of words,
aspect of the world. gestures, pictures,
-We develop schemas for all types of items and activities. or actions to
From simple items such as a chair, a car, fish, bird or represent _____,
house. To complex like the chemical bonds between ______, or
atoms or the seating in the House of Representatives. behaviors.
-also called as “______________”. • Intellectual
development in
Adaptation Processes: this stage is
demonstrated
_____________ 1. Using an existing schema to deal with through the use
a new object or situation. Your knowledge about the of _________and
world or general _________. Concrete- __ to 11 ____________
Operational Stage years manipulation of
_____________ 2. Happens when the existing schema or symbols, which
knowledge does not work, so you need to changed it to are related to
deal with a new object or situation. concrete objects.
2 ________ of Equilibration • Thinking
____________ occurs when a child’s schemas can deal becomes less
with most new information through assimilation. While ego-centric.
___________ occurs when new information cannot be • The period from
filled with existing schemas. adolescence
through
__________
Stages of Cognitive Development • The child is no
longer dependent
Stages Period Descriptions
on concrete
• Knowledge is personal
limited experiences in the
• Infants cannot present. In
predict reaction, dealing with
they must learn situations, the
through Starts to
_______ or the
_____________ emerge
_______ can be a
• The main _______________ between
reference to know
development Stage 11 to __
what to do.
during this stage years
• Able to analyze
From is the old,
Sensorimotor problems, and
birth to understanding consider different
Stage
__ years that objects exist ways of solving it
and events occur in a __________
in the world way.
independently of • Can deal with
one's own abstract or
actions. hypothetical
• ______________ situations and
means knowing generate ideas
that an object still about it through
exists, even if it ______ thinking.
is hidden. Criticisms:
• In this stage, the
children’s way of • Piaget underestimated the abilities of children
thinking and because his tests were confusing or difficult to
From __ intelligence is understand. He failed to distinguish between
_______________
to 7 __________ competence (what a child is capable of doing) and
Stage
years (thinking only of performance (what a child can show when given a
oneself) It is all particular task) When tasks were altered,
about him or performance (and therefore competence) was
herself. affected.