Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development Flashcards
Jean Piaget's stages and key concepts for CTET.
- Sensorimotor stage
- Birth to 2 years – object permanence develops.
- Pre-operational stage
- 2 to 7 years – symbolic thought, egocentrism, animism.
- Concrete operational stage
- 7 to 11 years – conservation, reversibility, logical thinking about concrete objects.
- Formal operational stage
- 11 years onwards – abstract and hypothetical-deductive reasoning.
- Schema
- Mental framework for organising knowledge.
- Assimilation
- Fitting new information into an existing schema.
- Accommodation
- Changing an existing schema to fit new information.
- Equilibration
- Balancing assimilation and accommodation to reach understanding.
- Piaget's view of the child
- An active 'little scientist' who constructs knowledge (constructivism).