Cognitive Development

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Cognitive Development

• Piagets Theory
• Relationship to Motor Development

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Jean Piaget

• Major Concept The process of thinking
• How we Know
• Four Stages
• Sensorimotor
• Preoperational
• Concrete Operational
• Formal Operational
• Cognitive Motor

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Stages of Cognitive Development

• S- Birth to 2 years
• P- 2 to 8 years
• C- 8 to 11 years
• F- 11-12 years
• Post Formal ?

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Processes of Cognitive Development

• Adaptation Two parts
• 1. Assimilation
• 2. Accommodation

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Framework for Understanding Learning

• List of Verbs
• Progression of Learning
• Level 1 Knowledge
• Level 2 Comprehension
• Level 3 Application, Analysis, Synthesis

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Infancy Sensorimotor Stage

• Thinking by Moving
• Reflexes
• Repetition of reflexes

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Reflexes Voluntary Movement

• Repetition no longer an accident
• Repeated actions
• Value of Stimuli
• Persistence
• Enduring Behaviors
• Imitation
• Object Permanency

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Increased Movement Abilities

• Crawling, creeping, and walking
• Active experimentation
• Onset of intellectual reasoning
• Distinguishing self from others
• Past, present, and future

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Preoperations Stage

• Builds
• Symbolism
• Verbal communication
• Pretend play
• Transductive reasoning
• Egocentrism
• Enhanced social awareness

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Pre to Concrete

• Conservation and Decentering
• Clay example
• Crumpled up paper example
• Basketball example (decentering)

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Concrete Operational

• Strategies
• Seriation (ex. tube of balls, mental
  organization)
• Learn through movement and manipulation

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Formal Operational

• Abstract Ideas
• Interpropositional thought
• Hypothetical- deductive reasoning
• Not all people achieve this stage