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Characteristics of Piaget's Cognitive Development Theory - Coggle…
Characteristics of Piaget's
Cognitive
Development Theory
SCHEMES
Schemes are like categories, they organize experience and knowledge
Schemes first based on actions, then functions and conception
Stage of development
Sensorimotor
0-2
The child learns by doing: looking, touching, sucking. The child also has a primitive understanding of cause-and-effect relationships. Object permanence appears around 9 months.
Preoperational
2-7
The child uses language and symbols, including letters and numbers. Egocentrism is also evident. Conservation marks the end of the preoperational stage and the beginning of concrete operations.
Concrete operational
7-11
The child demonstrates conservation, reversibility, serial ordering, and a mature understanding of cause-and-effect relationships. Thinking at this stage is still concrete.
Formal operational
12+
The individual demonstrates abstract thinking, including logic, deductive reasoning, comparison, and classification.
Adaptation processes that enable the transition from one stage to another
Assimilation
Existing schemes must be changed to incorporate new information
New experiences are readily incorporated into existing schemes
Equilibrium
When assimilation and accommodation are in balance
Accomodation