Cognitive Development

in Childhood

Tom Peric
PSY 100
Overview
• Introduction
• Nature vs. Nurture
• Continuous and Discontinuous Development
• Piaget’s Stages of Development
• Activity
• Application to Education
• Activity
Introduction

Development?

How to study it?

Stages or continuous?
Overview
• Introduction
• Nature vs. Nurture
• Continuous and Discontinuous Development
• Piaget’s Stages of Development
• Activity
• Application to Education
• Activity
Nature and Nurture

Nature  Biology
Nurture  Environment

 The Great Debate

 Choices and Decisions

Overview
• Introduction
• Nature vs. Nurture
• Continuous and Discontinuous Development
• Piaget’s Stages of Development
• Activity
• Application to Education
• Activity
Continuous and Discontinuous
Development
• What is Continuous
Development?

• What is
Discontinuous
Development?
Overview
• Introduction
• Nature vs. Nurture
• Continuous and Discontinuous Development
• Piaget’s Stages of Development
• Activity
• Application to Education
• Activity
Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development
Concrete
Sensorimotor S Preoperational Re Formal Operati
tage asoning Operational onal

6 or 7 to 11 or 12 -
Birth to 2 Years 2 to 6 or 7 Years
11 or 12 Years Lifetime

Intelligence in Thinking dominated by Individual can

Logical
action: child perception, but child think logically
reasoning only
interacts with becomes more capable about potential
applied to
environment by of symbolic functioning; events or
objects that are
manipulating conservation problem; abstract ideas;
real or can be
objects; object language development advanced
seen
permanence occurs reasoning
Object Permanence
Overview
• Introduction
• Nature vs. Nurture
• Continuous and Discontinuous Development
• Piaget’s Stages of Development
• Activity
• Application to Education
• Activity
Applications to Education

Nurture
 Reading
 Mathematics

Nature
 Brain Activity
Overview
• Introduction
• Nature vs. Nurture
• Continuous and Discontinuous Development
• Piaget’s Stages of Development
• Activity
• Application to Education
• Activity
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