Plans for April 26
• By the end of the period you should be
able to
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Briefly explain who Piaget is
•
Identify the ages and names of his first two stages
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Briefly explain the focus of each stage
•
Explain what object permanence is how you know a child has attained it.
Read Cognitive Development
• The link is on my website
• Who is Piaget?
• What is he know for?
• After you read continue with the
power point
Piaget
Cognitive Development
Copy these notes
Piaget Terms to know
• Schemes- Mental patterns that guide
behavior/an organized cognitive list
• Assimilation- using old methods to deal
with new situations
• Accommodation- changing methods to
adjust to new situations
• Centration- focusing only on one aspect
of a situation
• Reversibility- objects can be changed
and then returned to the original state
Read the sensorimotor and preoperational
stages
• Link is on my website- Piaget reading 2
• Write one sentence in packet to explain
the sensorimotor stage and one to
explain the preoperational stage
Copy Notes
• Sensorimotor and Preoperational
stages
• You need to be able to name the
stage, identify the age and briefly
explain what goes on during the stage
Sensory Motor
• Birth - age 2
Sensory Motor
• Characteristic
• a. learning is done through exploring with their senses
• - touch, taste, hear…
• - children who cannot use one of their senses compensate
by highly developing another sense
• b. children begin to understand that objects are not part of
themselves
• c.thinking is displayed in action
Developmental
Achievements
• Object permanence
• a. understanding that things still exist even
if they cannot see them
• b. usually occurs at 8 months
• c. you know they have obtained it if
they look for things when you hide them
Object permanence
•
Watch this video
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8yJVhjS0&playnext=1&list=PL5B4A3359FFD3DE48
• Link for this video is on my website
Pre-Op
• 2-7
Preoperational Stage
• Characteristics• a. Egocentric-can only think of things
based on their experiences- cannot see
another’s point of view
Example of egocentricism
• Watch this video
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oinq
FgsIbh0
•
Link is on my website
Pre-op continued
• b. Animism- inanimate objects
are capable of actions or lifelike qualities
• Ex- the sidewalk made me fall
• my stuffed animal is sad
Arificialism
• Things that happen in nature are
created by humans
• example- the gods are bowling
apply what you know
• As a table, come up with 2 examples of
animism and one example of
artificialism
• - write them in on the side of your
outline
Pre-op continued
• preoperational kids are not very good at
thinking things out so they ask lots of
questions.
•
They have a tough time understanding
what if
Developmental achievement
• a. Language
• b. Use of symbols to represent things
• - understanding a picture of an apple
represents a real apple and can
represent the letter A
• c.
readiness for operational thought
• operational thought means being able to do things mentally
(without concrete objects)
Assignment for Wednesday
• Find a toy that would be appropriate for
a kid in the sensorimotor stage-
• Find a picture of the toy
• Write down the name of the toy
• Explain how it is used
• Why would this be a good toy for a
sensory motor kid?
Stop here
Concrete Operations
• Ages 7- adolescence (11)
• 1. Characteristics
• a. Use of simple logic
• b. Use of simple mental
representations
• - they no longer need to use their
fingers to do simple math or show how
old they are
Developmental Achievements
• a. Conservation-matter doesn’t
increase or decrease because of the
change in form
• Conservation of Liquid- the amount of
liquid doesn’t change if it changes form
( moves to a taller glass)
• Conservation of number- The amount
doesn’t change if things get spaced out
Lack of Conservation of Liquid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLj0IZFLKvg&feature
=autoplay&list=PL5B4A3359FFD3DE48&index=21&play
next=2
Lack of conservation of number
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLj0I
ZFLKvg&feature=autoplay&list=PL5B4
A3359FFD3DE48&index=21&playnext=
2
• a. Reversibility- math operations can
be undone
• b. Class inclusion/Heirarchyunderstanding the hierarchical nature of
classifications ( red flowers and yellow
flowers are all flowers)
• c. Seriation- arranging objects
according to size
Formal Operations
• 1. Characteristics
• a.
abstract thinking- what might
happen?
• b.Concrete objects are not needed
• c.Everyone doesn’t achieve this
Do this now...
• Quizlet Paiget matching quiz
• Homework- last page of packet
• Quiz Friday