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Stage one
Sensorimotor
Sensorimotor stage time period
From birth until about two years
Sensorimotor stage description
Developing the ability to coordinate their sensory with their motor actions
Sensorimotor vocab word
Object permanence
Object permanence
Developes when a child recognizes that objects continue to exist even when they are no longer visible
Stage two
Preoperational
Preoperational time period
From two years old to seven years old
Preoperational description
They gradually improve their use of mental images
Animism
The belief that all things are living
Egocentrism
Limited ability to share another persons view point, they do what they want
Centration
Tendency to focus on one thing at a time
Irreversibility
Inability to envision reversing an action
stage three
Concrete operational
Concrete operational time period
Seven to eleven
Concrete operational description
Can perform operations only on images of tangible objects and actual events
Theory of mind in concrete operational
Gain a sense of what others are thinking or feeling, leads to empathy
Conservation
Piaget’s term for the awareness that physical quantities remain constant in spite of changes in their shape or appearance
Conservation example
Brady has two slices of pizza, Connor has one slice cut in half—Connor thinks that he has the same amount
Stage four
Formal operational
Former operational time period
Begins around age 11
Formal operational description
They begin to apply their operations to abstract concepts in addition to concrete objects
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