Theories of Growth and Development2
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Jean Piaget believed that children develop cognitive abilities through a series of stages, gradually progressing from lacking adult competencies to developing them fully. He proposed that children learn through assimilation, applying existing mental schemes to new information, and accommodation, modifying schemes when information does not fit existing schemes. Piaget outlined four main stages of cognitive development from infancy to adulthood characterized by developing object permanence, decreasing egocentrism, and gaining logical and abstract reasoning skills.
Theories of Growth and Development2
- 3. JEAN PIAGET believed that a child enters the world lacking virtually all the basic cognitive competencies of the adult, and gradually develops these competencies by passing through a series of periods of development.
- 5. Assimilation- It is the process of taking in new information about Assimilation- It is the process of taking objects by trying out in new information about objects by trying out existing schemes on objects that fit those schemes. existing schemes on objects that fit those schemes.
- 6. Accommodation- It is the process of modifying schemes as the infant tries out familiar schemes on objects that do not fit them.
- 7. Cognitive Stages Age Highlights Sensorimotor 0-2 Object permanence Stranger anxiety Pre-operational 2-7 Egocentrism Animism Concrete 7-11 Decentring, Operational Seriation, Classification, Reversibility, Conservation Formal 12 onwards Analytical Operational critical