Draw 4 pictures of a house meeting the following
requirements:
House 1: Draw it like a 0-1 ½ year old would
House 2: Draw it like a 2-7 year old would
House 3: Draw it like a 7-11 year old would
House 4: Draw it like someone 11 or older would
You can tell a lot about cognitive development by
looking at a child’s drawing
Is that a drawing of
two caterpillars?
Warm up #4
• Title: Conservation Quiz
• Label:
– 1)
• A)
• B)
– 2)
• A)
• B)
• When dismissed by the teacher walk to the front
of the room and label which has more and which
has less (A or B) for 1 and 2.
COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT. Pioneers - Jean Piaget.
Piaget noticed that his children were able to handle logical
problems differently at different ages.
Further, he noticed that as children age, their ability to handle
logical problems changes. Piaget then spent years studying
how cognitive development occurred on average.
From this intensive study, Piaget developed a theory of cognitive
development that described how people are able to deal with
logical problems differently at different points in their lives.
Schemas
Right now in your head,
picture a model…
• Children view the world
through schemas (as do
adults for the most part)
• Schemas are ways we
interpret the world
around us
• It is basically what you
picture in your head
when you think of
anything.
These 3
probably fit
into your
concept
(schema) of
a model.
But does this
one?
Why might Ms. Julian’s or
another adult’s schemas be
different than yours (think of
how our schemas are
changed)?
Explain your answer.
If I teach a 3 year old
that an animal with 4
legs and a tail is a
dog….
Assimilation
• Incorporating new
experiences into
existing schemas.
What schema would you
assimilate this into?
Or this?
What
would
he call
this?
Assimilation in High School
• When you first meet
somebody, you will
assimilate them into a
schema that you
already have.
If you see two guys dressed
like this, what schema would
you assimilate them into?
•Would you always be right?
Schema- Learn what an apple is.
Assimilation-
See tomato
and assume
it’s an
apple
because it’s
red.
To change your
schema based on
new information
Form a new
view based on
this experience!
Ex. Schema- people
with facial tattoos
are mean and dirty
Accommodation
Accommodation
• Changing an
existing schema
to adapt to new
information.
If I tell someone from the mid-west to
picture their schema of the Bronx they may
talk about the ghetto areas.
But if I showed them other areas of the Bronx, they would be forced to
accommodate (change) their schema to incorporate their new information.
STAGE THEORY
Piaget: all human beings pass
through all stages in same order,
& we all go through ALL stages
during our lifespan.
Object Permanence: Concept
acquired in stage 2.
Lack of object permanence is why
babies love the game peekaboo.
But it is no longer interesting for
toddlers.
Conservation: Principle that
things stay the same no matter if
the form changes. (physics)
Lack of conservation also can be
seen in length, mass, number &
volume.
Examples: Kids and Family Guy
Piaget believed that babies up to 18 months lacked the
development to determine if an object is still there or not:
Object Permanence
Example of a formal operational
question. Can you answer this?
• “If Kelly is taller than Ali and Ali is taller than
Jo, who is tallest?”
• “Where would you put a 3rd eye?”
How to Memorize Piaget’s Stages
1. Sensorimotor (0-2 yrs: Object Permanence)
2. Preoperational (2-7 yrs: Magical Thinking, Conservation of
Energy is difficult, Egocentric, Assimilation)
3. Concrete Operations (7-12 yrs: Logical Thinking,
Accommodation)
4. Formal Operations (Adult: Abstract Thinking)
SPCF
-or-
“SPeCiFy”
Critics of Piaget:
Underestimated children’s skills on one end &
Overestimated their skills on the other end
Several researchers rephrased Piagetian tasks & found that
younger children were able to understand the
questions & respond appropriately
Children seem to acquire cognitive abilities
earlier than Piaget predicted
In addition, the children seemed to have internal
representation prior to Preoperational ages.
On the other end, another researcher gave a
variety of Piagetian tasks to college freshmen &
found that only 40% of them displayed
characteristics of formal operations.
100% should have been in formal operations, according to Piaget.
Children may enter formal operations later in life.
Your reading groups… just like the
Placebo Experiment
• Read each of the 4 stages of Piaget’s Theory.
• Complete the appropriate box on your graphic
organizer for each.