Jean Piaget Conceptualization and Schematic Development

Schemas

• Concept of framework that organizes and interpreters information

Schematic Assimilation

• Interpreting our new experiences in terms of our existing schemas

Schematic Accommodation

• adapting our current schemas (understanding) to incorporate new info

STAGE 1

The Sensorimotor Stage ( birth- 2)

• sensory development and stimuli exploration

• development of rudimentary schemas

STAGE 1

Object Permanence ( birth- 2)

-awareness that objects exist even when cannot be seen

-peekaboo

STAGE 2

The Pre-operational Stage (ages 2-7)

• development of symbols+ lan.(critical period hypothesis)

STAGE 2

Operational Cognition (ages 2-7)

• sequential mental processing

• comprehension of patterns

• arranging thoughts

STAGE 2

Egocentric Cognition (ages 2-7)

• inability to understand concepts through a perspective of others

• no compassion

• self absorbed

STAGE 2

Animistic Cognition (ages 2-7)

• believing all things are living and have human emotions

STAGE 2

Artificialistic Cognition (ages 2-7)

-assuming that environmental events are due to human actions and technology they’re familiar with

STAGE 3

The Concrete Operational Stage (ages 7-11)

• Reversibility: reversing actions like counting backwards

• Conservation: understanding volume and mass

STAGE 4

The Formal Operation Stage (ages 11-Adult)

• cognitive maturity

• ability to think logically about abstract concepts

• ability to think hypothetically

• metacognition- thinking about thinking