Jean Piaget's

Theory of
Cognitive
Development
1. What does Piaget’s theory
all about?
2. What are the four main
stage of cognitive
development?
3. What are the educational
implication of Piaget’s
Theoretical work in classroom?
• To explain each developmental
stage in Piaget’s theory.

• To know more about the

Piaget’s theory of cognitive
development.
• Piaget's (1936) theory of
cognitive development explains
how a child constructs a
mental model of the world.

• He disagreed with the idea that

intelligence was a fixed trait,
and regarded cognitive
development as a process
which occurs due to biological
maturation and interaction
• 1. SENSORIMOTOR

• 2. PREOPERATIONAL STAGE

• 3. CONCRETE OPERATION STAGE

• 4. FORMAL OPERATION
 Senses development

 It is characterized by the
absence of language and
based primarily on immediate
experience through the
senses.
STAGE 1 – birth. Behavior is reflexive
– extends to about 4
STAGE 2
months. Sucking becomes habitual
– four to 8 months. Behavior
STAGE 3
becomes oriented
STAGE 4- eights months to one year.
Child begin to anticipate events.
STAGE 5&6 – Encompass the second
year of life
 Language Development

 The rich the verbal

environment, the more likely
it is that language will
develop.
A. PRECONCEPTIONAL THINKING – (About
2 to 4 yrs.)
Children begin rudimentary
formation and classified things
with their similarities.
B. PERIOD OF INTUITIVE THOUGHT – (About
4 to 7 yrs.)
Child solves problems
intuitively, instead of in
accordance with some logical rule.
(Failure to develop conservation)
 It is the beginning of logical
or operational thought.

 Learning and Gaining

increased their skill.
 The individual comes to think
at the level of adults when
they are functioning t their
best.

 This stage is characterized

by hypothesis testing.
A.Design of curricula

B.One aim of education is to

help the child develop his
full potential to become an
adult.

C.Learning is cumulative