LIZETTE DEL CARMEN GARCIA REYES

ISIDRO DARINEL GÓMEZ GONZÁLEZ

 He was born in August 9, 1896, Neuchâtel, Switzerlan, he died
September 16, 1980, Geneva

Wiss psychologist who was the first to make a systematic

study of the acquisition of understanding in children. He is
thought by many to have been the major figure in 20th-
century developmental psychology.

By The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica

What did Jean
Piaget study?
 Jean Piaget studied zoology (doctorate,
1918) and philosophy at the University of
Neuchâtel, Switzerland, and psychology at
the University of Zürich (1919) and in
Paris under Pierre Janet and Théodore
Simon, among others.

By The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica

 Jean Piaget's Theory
of cognitive development
"Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development suggests that
intelligence changes as children grow.
Cognitive development occurs through the interaction of
innate capacities and environmental events, and children pass
through a series of stages".

By Saul McLeod, PhD | Updated August 18,

2022
 Schemas,
Assimilation,
Accommodation
 Schemas
A schema includes both a category of
knowledge and the process of obtaining
that knowledge. As experiences
happen, this new information is used to
modify, add to, or change previously
existing schemas.

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 Assimilation

The process of taking in new

information into our previously existing
schema’s is known as assimilation. The
process is somewhat subjective,
because we tend to modify experience
or information somewhat to fit in with
our preexisting beliefs.

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 Accommodation

Accommodation involves
altering existing schemas,
or ideas, as a result of
new information or new
experiences.

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Piaget’s Four Stages
 Sensorimotor Birth to 18-24 months Object permanence

Preoperational 2 to 7 years old Symbolic thought

Concrete operational Ages 7 to 11 years Logical thought

Formal operational Adolescence to Scientific reasoning

adulthood

Jean Piaget's Theory and Stages of Cognitive Development - Simply Psychology

 • Although no stage can be missed out, there are individual
differences in the rate at which children progress through
stages, and some individuals may never attain the later stages.

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 The Sensorimotor Stage
Ages: Birth to 2 Years

The first stage is the sensory motor

stage, and during this stage the
infant focuses on physical sensations
and on learning to co-ordinate his
body.

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 The sensorimotor stage

Use of reflexes Primary circular Secondary circular

reactions (1–4 reactions (4–8
(0–2 months) months)
months)

Children’s behaviors
During this stage, children
Children start to consolidate become more intentional,
typically use their
reflexes. They cannot
information from different and the types of behaviors
sensory organs. They start to that they repeat expand
consolidate information
engage in behavior that
from their sensory organs to include those that result
satisfies the way their body
into a single, unified in interesting responses
feels or their needs.
concept.
external to their body.

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 The sensorimotor stage
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Coordination of Tertiary circular

secondary schemes reactions (12–18 Mental combinations
(8–12 months) months) (18–24 months)

At this point, children’s

Instead of performing the same actions, Children start to rely on
behaviors become more goal children try new behaviors and actions to
mental abstractions to solve
oriented, and they can achieve different results. These behaviors
are not spontaneous or by accident, but problems, use gestures and
combine different behaviors
are purposeful. words to communicate, and
to achieve goals.
can pretend.

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 Major Characteristics and
Developmental Changes

The infant learns about During the sensorimotor They relate to the emergence
the world through their stage a range of cognitive of the general symbolic
senses and through abilities develop. function, which is the capacity
their action. to represent the world
mentally

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 During this stage the infant lives in
the present. It does not yet have a
mental picture of the world stored in
its memory therefore it does not
have a sense of object permanence.

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Nortje, A. (2021, May 3). Piaget’s Stages: 4 Stages of Cognitive Development &
Theory. PositivePsychology.com. https://positivepsychology.com/piaget-
stages-theory/#theory.

Developmental psychology | Britannica. (2023). In Encyclopædia Britannica.

https://www.britannica.com/science/developmental-psychology

(2022). Simplypsychology.org. https://www.simplypsychology.org/piaget.html

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