PIAGET WORKSHEET

Piaget Worksheet

Piaget Worksheet

Directions: Review Module 26 of Psychology and Your Life. Complete the matrix below and answer the questions that follow.

Cognitive Stage

Age Range

Major Characteristics

Sensorimotor

Birth-2 years

Development of object permanence,

development of motor skills, little or

no capacity for symbolic representation

Preoperational

2-7 years

Development of language and

symbolic thinking, egocentric thinking

Concrete operational mastery

7-12 years

Development of conservation,

of concept of reversibility

Formal operational

12 years-adulthood

Development of logical and abstract

thinking

This is the awareness that objects and people continue to exist, even if they are out of sight.

Recognition

Object permanence

Intuition

Cognitive development

During this stage, motor skills are developed; however, there is little or no capacity for symbolic representation.

Formal operational

Concrete operational mastery

Sensorimotor

Preoperational

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