Cited: Berger, K. S. (2009). The Developing Person Through Childhood and Adolecence. New York: Worth Publishers.
Cited: Berger, K. S. (2009). The Developing Person Through Childhood and Adolecence. New York: Worth Publishers.
-As child moves through preoperational stage the ability to think about objects in symbols remains limited to thinking in one direction only or using one-way logic. Difficult for child to think backwards.…
Jean Piaget is a prominent name you will come across when looking into Cognitive Development. He became intrigued with the reasons why children gave their wrong answers on questions that required logical thinking (Saul McLeod, Simply Psychology 2009, updated 2012). 1 Before Piaget’s…
Berger, Kathleen Stassen. (2012). The Developing Person Through Childhood 6th Edition. New York, NY: Worth Publishers.…
Piaget’s second stage, the stage of preoperational thought, spans the ages of 2 to 7 years. During this early stage, the toddler is egocentric and still unaware of others’ viewpoints. The thought process is illogical and the toddler displays magical thinking.…
Siegler, R.S., and Alibali, M.W. (2005). Children’s thinking 4th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc.…
In Piaget theory on child development the three stages of development that we go through that starts from infancy are Sensorimotor, preoperational, and concrete operational. Gonzalez-Mena, Janet (2014) states that according to Jean Piaget theory children construct knowledge and develop their reasoning abilities through interactions with people and the environment as they seek to understand the world and how it works…
References: Berger, K. (2012). The developing person through childhood. (6th ed.). New York: Worth Publishers…
Piaget’s research led him to identify four stages of cognitive development (Huitt & Hummel, 2003; Hutchinson, 2015). The first stage known as the sensorimotor stage occurs in infancy and involves the child gradually learning object permanence, motor skills, and some language skills (Huitt & Hummel, 2003). The second stage, known as the preoperational stage, occurs in early childhood is centered on overgeneralization of rules and egocentric thought processes (Hutchinson, 2015). Concrete operational is the next stage typically seen in ages 7-11 (Hutchison, 2015). In this stage the child can apply logical problem solving to solve concrete problems (Hutchinson, 2015). The last identified stage is formal operations which occurs in adolescence and adulthood. In this stage an individual is able to use abstract concepts to solve both real and hypothetical problems (Hutchinson,…
Bibliography: Berger, Kathleen Stassen. "10." The Developing Person: through Childhood and Adolescence. New York: Worth, 2006. 302-03. Print.…
Developmental Psychology Student Netletter. (1998). Have you ever wondered why your pre-schooler thinks differently than you?. Retrieved from http://www.mesacc.edu/dept/d46/psy/dev/Fall98/Ear_Chil/ErlyChild.html…
Jean Piaget has been a strong influence on the understanding of children’s development and his work “identified particular stages of cognitive development which continues to influence how we work with children” (Meggitt, Walker, 2004, pg109). Piaget was a Swiss psychologist born August 1896. He published his first paper when he was aged 10 and received a Ph.D. of natural sciences aged 22. Piaget published many books and articles including The Psychology of Intelligence and “The Grasp of Consciousness” (www.muskingum.edu). He studied children’s thinking and…
A friend’s uncle, who lives in the area, has a set of fraternal male twins named Justin and Christian that just a week ago, turned four years old. And after getting a good connection through my friend, I was invited over to do a few of Piaget’s experiments on each of the boys. Being twins, both boys obviously fit into the preschool age-range and I determined that I should test their preoperational thought as it relates to their conservation, centration, and the irreversibility they may feature in their thinking. Piaget argues that adolescents still in the stage of preoperational thinking focus on one aspect of a situation, neglecting its other important features, which is called “centration” (Berk, 2012). They also have an inability to mentally go through a series of steps in a problem, and then reverse direction, returning to the starting point. This is called “irreversibility” (Berk, 2012, p. 322). These factors relate to a children’s lack of ability in “conservation” where an object’s physical characteristics remain the same, even when their outward appearance undergoes change (Berk, 2012). I chose to test these factors and limitations in these preschoolers to see if Piaget’s theory holds true in both subjects.…
Berger, K. S. (2011). The developing person through the life span (8th ed.). New York, NY: Worth Publishers.…
The last stage of Piaget’s cognitive development is known as the Formal Operational Stage, which occurs between the ages of eleven and sixteen. Adolescents have now gained the ability to think in an abstract matter, and can now understand things such as science and algebra. The most distinct difference between the Concrete Operational stage, and the Formal Operational stage, is known as inferential thinking. A child who needs to draw a picture or use objects is still in the Concrete Operational Stage, whereas a child who can reason an answer in their head in the Formal Operational stage. They can also formulate hypotheses and consider different possibilities. For example, a child who has progressed to this stage could now hypothesize what will happen to a plant in the absence of water.…
Keep in mind that both of the pieces are equal in size. When we take a look at the thought patterns and process of a 9-year-old, we see a huge difference. At age 9, children are at a more concrete operational stage. The age range for this stage is 7 to 11. At this age, Piaget noticed children are better at inductive reasoning, whereas at 3 this is not shown. An example of inductive reasoning is if a child goes next to a cat, him or her experiences sneezing or an itchy throat. This triggers to the child that there is something wrong when he or she goes near a cat due to unknown allergies. Children at age 9 are extremely good and understanding at this type of reasoning. Let’s not forget, a 9-year-old better understands conservation. Now, if a child were to be asked to choose between two pieces of clay, the child will choose either piece because they understand that the two pieces are equal in size. To wrap it up, the thought patterns of kids at age 3 and at age 9 are extremely different and not similar what so ever. We all know this, but psychology provides us examples and reasons for why to think this way and what is different in terms of conservation and…