Piaget's theories
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Piaget’s Theories
BiographyJean Piaget was born on August 9, 1896, in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. And he died on September 16, 1980, in Geneva, Switzerland.When he was 11, Piaget wrote a short scientific paper on the Albino Sparrow. He studied biology and psychology.He identified four stages of children
mental development, called “schema”.
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Preoperational
Sensorimotor
Sensorimotor Stage
• During that years children develop their first schemas.
• They get to understand themselves thanks to their sensation and movement.
That is the first child stage and it goes from birth to 2 years old.
Sensorimotor StageStage of reflex activity.Stage of primary circular reactions.Stage of secondary circular reactions.Co-ordination of secondary circular reactions.Stage of tertiary circular reactions.Beginnings of symbolic representation.
Preoperational Stage
This stage goes from 2 to 7 years old.•Children start to learn through their experiences and real objects around their close environment.•Children also think that all inert objects have some kind of consciousness
Preoperational Stage
Preconceptual substage (from 2 to 4).
Intuitive substage (from 4 to 7).
Concrete operational stage
This stage goes from 7 to 11 years old.
•Children are still learning thought experiences with real objects.•They are no longer subject illogical limitations.
Concrete operational stage
Decentring
Reversibility
ConservationSeriation
Clasification
Formal Operation stage
This stage begins at age 12 to and last into adulthood.
•During this time people develop the hability to think about abstact concepts.•People develop skills such as logical thought, deductive reasoning and systematic planning.
Formal Operation Stage
This stage has main features:
•Abstract concepts•Deductive logic•Combinational logic
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