Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Development
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Sensorimotor Stage
**0-2 years of age**.
Major characteristics and developmental changes during this stage:
* Know the world through movements and sensations
* Learn about the world through basic actions such as sucking, grasping, looking, and listening
* Learn that things continue to exist even when they cannot be seen (object permanence)
* Realize that they are separate beings from the people and objects around them
* Realize that their actions can cause things to happen in the world around them
Major characteristics and developmental changes during this stage:
* Know the world through movements and sensations
* Learn about the world through basic actions such as sucking, grasping, looking, and listening
* Learn that things continue to exist even when they cannot be seen (object permanence)
* Realize that they are separate beings from the people and objects around them
* Realize that their actions can cause things to happen in the world around them
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Preoperational Stage
**2-7 years of age**.
Major characteristics and developmental changes during this stage:
* Begin to think symbolically and learn to use words and pictures to represent objects
* Tend to be egocentric and struggle to see things from the perspective of others
* Getting better with language and thinking, but still tend to think in very concrete terms
Major characteristics and developmental changes during this stage:
* Begin to think symbolically and learn to use words and pictures to represent objects
* Tend to be egocentric and struggle to see things from the perspective of others
* Getting better with language and thinking, but still tend to think in very concrete terms
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Concrete Operational Stage
**7-11 years of age**.
Major characteristics and developmental changes during this stage:
* Begin to think logically about concrete events
* Begin to understand the concept of conservation; that the amount of liquid in a short, wide cup is equal to that in a tall, skinny glass, for example
* Thinking becomes more logical and organized, but still very concrete
* Begin using inductive logic, or reasoning from specific information to a general principle
Major characteristics and developmental changes during this stage:
* Begin to think logically about concrete events
* Begin to understand the concept of conservation; that the amount of liquid in a short, wide cup is equal to that in a tall, skinny glass, for example
* Thinking becomes more logical and organized, but still very concrete
* Begin using inductive logic, or reasoning from specific information to a general principle
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Formal Operational Stage
**12 years and up**.
Major characteristics and developmental changes during this time:
* Begins to think abstractly and reason about hypothetical problems
* Begins to think more about moral, philosophical, ethical, social, and political issues that require theoretical and abstract reasoning
* Begins to use deductive logic, or reasoning from a general principle to specific information
Major characteristics and developmental changes during this time:
* Begins to think abstractly and reason about hypothetical problems
* Begins to think more about moral, philosophical, ethical, social, and political issues that require theoretical and abstract reasoning
* Begins to use deductive logic, or reasoning from a general principle to specific information
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Perlocutionary Stage
Approx. 6 months of age. “Signals” have an effect on the listener but lack communicative intent.
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Illocutionary Stage
Approx. 8 months of age. Signaling to carry out some socially organized action using intentional communication.
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Locutionary Stage
Approx. 12 months of age. Begins to use words.