In: Psychology
Discuss the cognitive changes taking place in developing child. Explain it.
Piaget's given four types of stages for Cognitive development:
a) Sensorimotor stage: ( Approximate age is of 0-2 years) In this stage infant explores the world by coordinating sensory experiences with physical actions.
b) Pre operational stage: (Approximate age is of 2-7 years) In this stage symbolic thought develops and helps to expend his/ her mental world.
c) Concrete operational stage ( Approximate age is of 7-11 years) •It is made up of operations mental actions that allows the child to do mentally what was done physically before.
• Concrete operations allow the child to focus on different characteristics band not focus on one aspect of the object.
• The child can reason logically about concrete events.
• This helps the child to appreciate that there are different ways of looking at things.
d) Formal operational stages( Approximate age is of 11-15 years ) The adolescent can apply logic more abstractly, hypothetical thinking develops.
A) Sensorimotor stage
B) Pre operational stage
C) Concrete operational stage
D) Formal operational stage