Jean Piaget - Cognitive Development of Children

sensory motor stage

• birth to 2 years

• no object permanence

• lacks language

• uses sense to explore

pre-operational stage

• 2-7 years

• preschool

• egocentric thought and language… mine, mine, mine

• concerned with absolutes

• think in black and white

concrete operational

• 7-11 years

• solves conservation tasks

• solves logical equations

• learn to think logically

formal operationsl

• 11+

• think abstractcly

• solves complex and hypothetical problems