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Lecture 5: Jean Piaget – Cognitive Development Theory - Coggle Diagram
Lecture 5: Jean Piaget – Cognitive Development Theory
Key Concepts
Children are active, curious learners
Learning is a constructive process (schemas)
Interaction with the physical environment is critical for learning and cognitive development
Cognitive development occurs through:
Assimilation: Fit new info into existing schema
Accommodation: Change schema to fit new info
Equilibration: Balancing assimilation & accommodation
Children organize what they learn from their experience
Children think in quantitatively different ways
at different age level
Piaget’s 4 Stages of Development:
Sensorimotor (0–2 yrs)
Learn via senses and motor actions
Object permanence develops
Deferred imitation appears
Preoperational (2–7 yrs)
Symbolic thinking, language grows
Limitations
Egocentrism
View world from own perspective
Animism
objects have human feelings and
intentions
Lack of conservation, centration, reversibility
pretend play
Concrete Operational (7–12 yrs)
Logical thinking about real, concrete situations
Understand conservation, classification, seriation
Formal Operational (12+ yrs)
Abstract, hypothetical thinking
Scientific reasoning (hypothetico-deductive)
Problem-solving, identity, perspective-taking
Educational Implications
Hands-on learning
Peer interaction
Stage-appropriate activities
Piagetian Processes
Schema
Actions or mental representations that organize knowledge
Assimilation
Incorporating new information into existing knowledge schemes
Accommodation
Adjusting schemes to fit new information and experience
Organization
The child acquires new schemes by organizing (combining) existing schemes into new ones
Equilibrium
to bring balance between assimilation and
accommodation
