COGNITIVE THEORY OF JEAN PIAGET

At what age did Jean Piaget published his first scientific paper?

• 15

• 11

• 23

• 19

"Children were not less intelligent than adults, they simply ______ differently."

• - Jean Piaget

process of fitting a new experience

into an existing or previously created

cognitive structure or schema

• Schema

• Accommodation

• Assimilation

• Equilibration

Stage of Piaget's Cognitive Development where the thinking of an individual becomes more logical.

• STAGE 1: Sensori-motor

• STAGE 3: Concrete-Operational

• STAGE 2: Pre-Operational

• STAGE 4: Formal Operational

At this stage of development, individuals begin to pose numerous questions and exhibit curiosity about everything.

• STAGE 1: Sensori-motor

• STAGE 2: Pre-Operational

• STAGE 3: Concrete-Operational

• STAGE 4: Formal Operational

Equilibration is the ______ _____ that moves all development forward

This is the tendency of children to attribute human like traits or characteristics to inanimate objects.

The ability to come up with different hypothesis about a problem and to gather and weigh data in order to make a final decision or judgement.

• Hypothetical Reasoning

• Analogical Reasoning

• Transductive Reasoning

• Deductive reasoning

According to Jean Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Development, at what age does an individual begin to understand logical reasoning and engage in fundamental mathematical concepts?

• 18 - 24 months old

• 2 - 7 years old

• 7 - 11 years old

• Adolescents to Adulthood

WRITE A 3-5 SENTENCES REFLECTION ABOUT THE QUOTE BELOW:

"Every time we teach a child something, we keep him from inventing it himself. On the other hand, that which we allow him to discover for himself will remain with him visible for the rest of his life"

• - Jean Piaget