Jean piaget cognitive development images
[MEMRES-5].
- Sensorimotor (0-2 years): Understanding through senses and actions; develops object permanence
- Preoperational (2-7 years): Symbolic thinking emerges; characterized by egocentrism
- Concrete Operational (7-11 years): Logical thinking about concrete situations; understands conservation
- Formal Operational (11+ years): Abstract thinking and hypothetical reasoning develops
- Schemas: Mental frameworks we use to organize and understand information
- Assimilation: Fitting new information into existing schemas
- Accommodation: Modifying existing schemas to fit new information
- Equilibration: The balance between assimilation and accommodation
- A baby learning that a pacifier still exists when dropped (object permanence)
- A child understanding that spreading out blocks doesn’t make them more numerous (conservation)
- A teenager solving abstract math problems (formal operations)
- A preschooler believing everyone sees things from their perspective (egocentr