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2. Preoperational

1. Sensorimotor

• From birth to around 2 yrs. Old
• Begin with only innate reflexes
• Infants use motor skills and senses to understand the world
• Able to use words and images to solve problems/have symbolic thought

• Putting an infant in a small ball pit and then moving the balls around and throwing them because of the results that come after
• An infant dropping a bottle from a highchair to see what happens

• From around 2 yrs. to 7 yrs old
• Preschoolers engage in pretend-play and develop a language using symbolic thought
• Egocentric
• Easily fooled by what they see and can not rely on logical thought
• Pretending a broom-stick is a horse
• Drawings that represent something or someone specific
• Playing next to other children but not with them
• Not wanting to share toys

Piaget's Developmental Theory

Introduction

Piaget has an interactionist and constructivist approach to how people develop cognitively. His view explains how nature and nurture play a role in cognitive development. Piaget believes that children play an active and huge role in their development. Piaget's Developmental Cognitive Theory consists of four stages that explain how they are discontinuous and universal. The stages are sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operations.

3. Concrete Operational

4. Formal Operation

• From around ll yrs and beyond
• Adolescents can think of hypothetical problems
• Ability to think of long-term consequences of different actions
• Playing board games
• Being able to explain abstract words such as justice or love without explaining them in a concrete way(using people or places as a definition)
• Solving a math problem using formulas
• Ability to solve or attempt to solve Rubik’s cube

• From around 7 yrs. To 11 yrs. old
• Children begin to gain the ability to act on concrete objects
• Can categorize, add, and subtract the objects
• Able to solve practical problems but struggle with hypothetical problems
• Becomes less egocentric

• Being able to make a bowl of cereal
• Separating animals from animals that fly and animals that don’t
• Listening to Mom when she says it is time to go