Cognitive Development

Intellectual Growth

4 Stages of Cognitive Development

Sensorimotor stage

The idea that objects do not cease to exist when they
are out of sight

Birth – 3 months

Follow moving objects with eyes
Stares at place where object has disappeared,but will not
search for object

5 months

Searches for hidden object
“A not B” effect

12 months

A mental representation or set of rules that
defines a particular behaviour category. It helps us to understand current and
future experiences.

Assimilation

The process by which an existing schema is modified
or changed by new experience

Representational Thought

Mental representation is instrumental in?

Preoperational stage

The understanding that specific properties of objects (height, weight, volume, number) remain the same despite apparent changes or arrangement of those objects.

Egocentrism

Concrete Operations stage

-Abstract Reasoning
-Metacognition
-Dependent on exposure to principles of scientific thinking