The Stages Of Cognitive Developmental Theory

The third stage is the Concrete Operational Stage, which occurs around age seven to age eleven. This stage marks the beginning of logical or operational thoughts for the child. Their thinking becomes less egocentric, and the child can now understand that although the appearance of something changes, the “thing” itself does not. For example, if a child decided to spread out a pile of blocks, they know there are still as many blocks as there were before, even though it looks different.

The changes in development occur through Stages: Sensorimotor: understanding the world through action (0-2 years), Preoperational: use representations (2-7 years), Concrete-operational: acquisition of operations, (7-11 years), and Formal-operational: ability to apply logical reasoning (11-15 years)

The Concrete Operational Stage (7-11): - A this stage the child can operate objects and understand them providing they can se them and/or are holding them. The child can count, spell, read etc. Although the child still needs some objects i.e. fingers, toys to count there is still a need for visual assistance. The child is developing a less egocentric perspective.

Piaget’s theory was introduced by Jean Piaget who established four periods of cognitive development. The four stages are; Sensorimotor, Preoperational, Concrete Operational, and Formal operational. The sensorimotor is the first stage and begins when the child is born and proceeds until the age of two years. The second stage is the preoperational stage and begins with the child is two years old and continues until the child reaches six years of age. The concrete stage is the third stage and begins when the child is six years old and proceeds until the age of 11 years old. The formal operational stage is the fourth stage and

Firstly, the stage of pre operational, which lasts until about age seven, in which the children have the ability of many feats that they could not achieve prior. For instance, they commence to making to believe in play, achieving simple routines, such as venturing to eat or get to kip. However, in order to organize play, they must symbolize those

The next stage is at the age of 7-11 years old. This stage is known as the concrete operational stage. This stage is when the children learn the idea of conservation. What is conservation? This is where you take two identical cups and pour the same amount of water into each of the identical cups. Then you ask the child which glass contains the most amount of water? The child will respond with the answer that bother glasses contain the same amount of water. Then right away without waiting grab a small fat glass and a tall skinny glass. Fill both of the glasses up with the identical glasses of the same amount of water in to the small fat glass and then the tall skinny glass. Ask the child now which glass contains the most amount of water.

According to (Quinn and Hugh 2007), “Piaget’s work focuses on the intellectual development of individuals and their adaptation to the environment”. Cognitive development takes place through four stages:

Piaget describes the radical change takes place in children’s thinking at around 18 months, in terms of the child’s ability to use symbols, but he tended to focus and what a child still cannot do rather than on what the child can do. Concrete operational stage: around 7-12 Years at this stage children continue to learn through their experiences solving problems mentally with real objects and become capable of logical thought. Formal operational stage: from 12 years into adulthood children begin to develop a more abstract view of the world, they understand that it is possible to create rules that help them to test things out, to have a hypotheses to test things out and they can now think in a rational scientific manner solving complex problems.

During this stage, 1. there is an increase in language development 2. continuation of symbolic representation 3.the development of imaginative play

In the concrete operational stage between the ages of seven and twelve, children become capable of logical thought, they also start to be able to think abstractly. However they are best suited to visible or concrete objects and things they can see (Lee and Gupta). Once the child has reached the formal operations stage from twelve years onwards it becomes more practiced at abstract processing, carrying out problem solving systematically and methodically thus completing the cognitive development process.

Piaget’s Stage Theory in my eyes was four key stages of development marked by shifts in how they understand the world. To me Piaget’s theories had a major impact on the theory and practice of education.

Through my work experiences I was seemed to work with children at the concrete and formal operational stages. Which my ideology towards other realms of cognitive development were lacking the full scope. As I started to understand that there was more to Jean Piaget cognitive development theory of stages. Chapter nine took a deeper look into formal operational stages. What really caption my attention was the aspects of the stage that detailed the reasoning behind the purpose of his or her thinking patterns start to differ.

Pre operational stage is in the age group of two to seven-year-olds, which is mainly preschool through third grade. During this stage the children are starting to learn symbols, language use, make believe play, parallel play, and egocentrism. Symbolic play is when one uses one

The third stage is the concrete-operational stage, which is from ages 7-11. Children in this stage begin to “figure things out” through logical tasks, but will have difficulty with metaphors and proverbs because they

The first stage of Piaget’s development theory is the sensorimotor stage which takes place in children most commonly 0 to 2 years old. In this stage, thought is developed through direct physical interactions with the environment. Three major cognitive leaps in this stage are the development of early schemes, the development of goal-oriented behavior, and the development of object permanence. During the early stages, infants are only aware of what is immediately in front of them. They focus on what they