Stages of Development
- Jean Piaget’s theory
- Children think of the world differently from adults.
- Children need to grasp something to enter next stage of development.
- Vygotsky’s theory.
- Resources
Sensory Motor
- Ages: Birth-2
- Learn to operate pupils, vision becomes sharper.
- Infants already have memory of their mothers’ voice through resonance.
- Learning about objects of the world and manipulating them.
- Object Permanence
- When people/things leave, they don’t seize to exist. Infants do not
understand this.
- Test: do they go after toys covered by blanket?
Pre-Operational
- Ages: 2-7
- Study of language, symbolic representation
- Conservation test
- Mistaking amount of water with height of water
- Two big slices pizza vs two small slices pizza — you both have two slices!
Concrete Operational
- Ages: 7-12
- Can understand concrete things, but not abstract one.
- Ecocentrism
- The world is the way they see it.
- “3 Mountains” ecocentrism test, draw how the mountains would look like from
the doll’s point of view.
- Ages: 12-15
- Pretty good at abstract concepts such as love, justice, math, etc.