AP psych- Piaget’s stages of Cognitive Development

What is the typical age range for the Sensorymotor stages?

• About 7 to 11 years

• About 2 to 6 or 7 years

• About 12 years to adult-hood

• Birth to nearly 2 years

Formal operational

• About 12 years old to adulthood

• About 2 to 6 or 7 years old

• About 7 to 11 years old

• Birth to nearly 2 years

Concrete operational

• Birth to nearly 2 years old

• About 2 to 6 or 7 years old

• About 7 to 11 years old

• About 12 years old to adulthood

Preoperational

• Birth to nearly 2 years old

• About 2 to 7 years old

• About 7 to 11 years old

• About 12 years old to adulthood

What is concrete operational

• Experiencing the world through senses and actions

• Representing things with words and images

• Thinking logically about concrete events

• Reasoning abstractly

What is sensorymotor?

• Experiencing the world through senses and actions

• Reasoning abstractly

• Thinking logically about concrete events

• Representing things with words and images

What is formal operational?

• Thinking logically about concrete events

• Reasoning abstractly

• Experiencing the world through senses and actions

• Representing things with words and images

What is preoperational?

• Reasoning abstractly

• Thinking logically about concrete events

• Experiencing the world through senses and actions

• Representing things with words and images

Which of the following are key milestones for the sensory-motor stage?

• Object permanence

• Conservation

• Stranger anxiety

• Abstract logic

Which of the following is a key milestone for the preoperational stage?

• Pretend play

• Theory of mind

• Egocentrism

• Language development