LET’S EXPLORE

PIAGET’S
THEORY
 PIAGET
Jean Piaget was born in Switzerland on August 9, 1896,
By the time he was 11, Piaget had already started his career as a
researcher by writing a short paper on an albino sparrow.

Well-known for developing the term "genetic epistemology" (the

study of the origins of knowledge)
 Stages
01 03
Sensorimotor Intelligence
02 Concrete Operational
04
(0-2 YEARS) thinking
Preoperational thinking FormaL Operational
(7-11 YEARS)
(2-7 YEARS) thinking
(12+ YEARS)
sensorimotor
sucking, rooting, grasping, crawling,
motor coordination, and visual tracking.
rapid cognitive development
development of object permanence
using the senses and motor movements
to gain knowledge about the world
PREOPERATIONAL
Begin to think symbolically and learn to
use words and pictures to represent
objects
Tend to be egocentric and struggle to
see things from the perspective of
others
Getting better with language and
thinking, but still tend to think in very
concrete terms
 CONCRETE
OPERATIONAL
become much more adept at using logic.
egocentrism of the previous stage begins
to disappear as kids become better at
thinking about how other people might
view a situation.
tend to struggle with abstract and
hypothetical concepts.
formal operational
thinking about abstract ideas and
situations
become capable of seeing multiple
potential solutions to problems and
think more scientifically about the
world around them.
 SCHEMAS
Equilibration
a schema includes both a category of
knowledge and the process of obtaining
that knowledge. the balance between
As experiences happen, this new assimilation and
information is used to modify, add to, accommodation
or change previously existing schemas. helps. It explain how
children can move
from one stage of
thought to the next
Assimilation
Accommodation
The process of
ability to
taking in new change existing
information into schemas in light
our already of new
existing information
schemas
 Piaget suggested that
there is a qualitative
change in “how children
think” as they gradually
process through these
four stages.