Exploring Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Development

The video explores Jean Piaget's theories on cognitive development, focusing on how children construct knowledge through schemas, assimilation, and accommodation. It outlines Piaget's four stages of development: sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational, highlighting how children understand the world at each stage. The video concludes with Piaget's lasting impact on cognitive psychology.

Who is considered responsible for our understanding of cognitive psychology?

• B.F. Skinner

• Sigmund Freud

• Carl Rogers

• Jean Piaget

What is the term used to describe a mental blueprint or framework in Piaget's theory?

• Egocentrism

• Accommodation

• Assimilation

• Schema

During which stage do children begin to understand the world through their senses and movements?

• Preoperational stage

• Sensorimotor stage

• Formal operational stage

• Concrete operational stage

What concept explains a child's adjustment of their schema in response to new information?

• Egocentrism

• Accommodation

• Assimilation

• Schema

At what stage does abstract thinking develop according to Piaget?

• Formal operational stage

• Concrete operational stage

• Preoperational stage

• Sensorimotor stage