Piaget+Cognitive+learning

PIAGETS COGNITIVE LEARNING!!!! Cognitive development is the construction of thought processes, including remembering, problem solving, and decision-making, from childhood through adolescence to adulthood. **1. Sensorimotor: ** //(birth to about age 2)//- during this state the child learns about himself through the environment and motor and reflex actions. The child learns that he is separate from the environment and although his parents and favorite toys are outside of his sense they continue to exist in his mind.  **2. Preoperational: ** //(begins about the time the child starts to talk to about age 7)//- the child begins to use symbols to represent objects as well as personify objects. The child can now think back to past events that are not directly placed in his attention. He is able to take information and fit it into his thoughts and ideas.   **

3. Concrete : ** //(about first grade to early adolescence)// - during this stage, a child is able to make rational judgments and think abstractly. The child is able to ask questions and mentally manipulate the information given back to him.   **4.Formal Operations: ** //(adolescence)//- this is the final stage and during it, the person no longer needs objects placed front of him to make rational decisions. At this point in the mental stage, the child is able of hypothetical thinking, reasoning, and views from different perspectives. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">