Piaget
Jean Piaget
Andrea Smith
ECE 353
Instructor Raimondi
July 1, 2013
Jean Piaget Stage Theory
Jean Piaget was a well-known developmental theorist. He attempted to answer the question “how doe knowledge evolve?” He was interested in intelligence. Piaget viewed intelligence as the ability to adapt to all aspects of reality. He also believed that within a person’s lifetime, intelligence evolves through a series of qualitatively distinct stages. Jean Piaget believed that all children progress through four distinct stages and in the same order. The first stage that Piaget believed that children go through is the Sensorimotor stage which lasts from birth to around the age of two. During this stage a child’s behavior is geared more towards sensory or motor effects. A child will also start to realize that an object still exists even though it has disappeared from their sight. The second stage in Piaget’s cognitive theory is the Pre-operational stage which starts around the age of two and ends at the age of six. During this stage children are more egocentric and have trouble seeing things from another person’s point of view. The third stage in Piaget’s theory is the Concrete operational stage which lasts from the age of six years to about twelve years of age. During this stage children can begin to understand things from another person’s perspective. They can begin to reason and make sense of things. The fourth stage in the theory is the Formal operational stage begins at the age of twelve and continues through adulthood. During this stage in development children are not as limited to concrete thinking and they can reason abstractly and logically.
Jean Piaget saw that children progressed through three stages that were crucial to children moving from one stage of development to another. These stages are assimilation, accommodation and equilibration (Siegler & Alibali, 2005). Assimilation refers to the way in which people transform incoming information so that it
Andrea Smith
ECE 353
Instructor Raimondi
July 1, 2013
Jean Piaget Stage Theory
Jean Piaget was a well-known developmental theorist. He attempted to answer the question “how doe knowledge evolve?” He was interested in intelligence. Piaget viewed intelligence as the ability to adapt to all aspects of reality. He also believed that within a person’s lifetime, intelligence evolves through a series of qualitatively distinct stages. Jean Piaget believed that all children progress through four distinct stages and in the same order. The first stage that Piaget believed that children go through is the Sensorimotor stage which lasts from birth to around the age of two. During this stage a child’s behavior is geared more towards sensory or motor effects. A child will also start to realize that an object still exists even though it has disappeared from their sight. The second stage in Piaget’s cognitive theory is the Pre-operational stage which starts around the age of two and ends at the age of six. During this stage children are more egocentric and have trouble seeing things from another person’s point of view. The third stage in Piaget’s theory is the Concrete operational stage which lasts from the age of six years to about twelve years of age. During this stage children can begin to understand things from another person’s perspective. They can begin to reason and make sense of things. The fourth stage in the theory is the Formal operational stage begins at the age of twelve and continues through adulthood. During this stage in development children are not as limited to concrete thinking and they can reason abstractly and logically.
Jean Piaget saw that children progressed through three stages that were crucial to children moving from one stage of development to another. These stages are assimilation, accommodation and equilibration (Siegler & Alibali, 2005). Assimilation refers to the way in which people transform incoming information so that it
References: Piaget’s Developmental Stages retrieved from castilio.fhsd,k12.mo.us/ksolomon/piaget’s_develop_stages.htm Siegler, R.S., & Alibali, M.W. (2005). Children’s thinking 4th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc. www.simplypsychology.org>Develop