Piaget’s stages of cognitive development

 In Piaget’s stages children creates ideas.  In cognitive development at Piaget’s stages, children’s are not limited to acquiring information from teachers and parents,  but, instead, tend to develop their own knowledge. The Piaget’s stages include; sensorimotor which occurs from the stage of zero years to two years, preoperational stage which occurs at two to seven years, the concrete operational which occurs at seven to eleven years, and legal working which occurs at adolescence.

At the sensorimotor stage, children use the motor activities without applying symbols. There is minimal knowledge at sensorimotor stage since only physical interaction and experiences are available. At this stage, children cannot predict reaction and only learn by trial and error. Children become more cognitive as they become more and more mobile. Language development also begins at this stage.

In Preoperational stage, children use language to communicate. In this stage, the children can comprehend and express relationship between the ancient and forthcoming. In this stage intelligence is not based on logic but is egocentric. Finally, in concrete operational stage, intellectual development is identified by the logic, with a relation to concrete. Under Piaget’s development, intellectual development is a long life process which ends when the operational thoughts are attained.

Annotated Bibliography

Wood, K. C., Smith, H., Grossniklaus, D. (2001). Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development. In M. Orey (Ed.), Emerging perspectives on learning, teaching, and technology. Retrieved from http://projects.coe.uga.edu/epltt

This article discusses Piaget stages. The stages are summarized, and discussions included indicating the different stages of Piaget stages development. The stages that are involved in this article include; sensorimotor which occur at a stage of birth to 2 years, preoperational stage which occurs at 2 to 7 years, the concrete operational which occurs at 7 to 11 years, and formal operational which occurs at adolescence.  The author indicates the various stages of Piaget’s development in the children’s life.  This is a very important source for getting a general over view of the various Piaget’s stages.

Lutz, S., & Huitt, W. (2004). Connecting cognitive development and constructivism: Implications from theory for instruction and assessment. Constructivism in the Human Sciences,9 (1), 67-90

This article reviews the connection between the cognitive development and the constructivism. In this article and implications from theory for instruction and Assessment have been looked into detail. This article looks at various theories by different authors about Piaget’s development. The article also assesses and evaluates a number of implications for how to assess cognitive development applying the perception of stage theory models of Piaget and Burner.  If these theories are thing to agree with, assessment should take into account what is developmentally appropriate to each stage.

Bobby O, (2008), Applying Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development to Mathematics Instruction: The Mathematics Educator 2008, Vol. 18, No. 1, 26–30

This article explains various theories that define how children develop. In this article, various stages of children development: the sensorimotor, preoperational stages, and operational stages in children development. This article is thus very important in the final paper and will provide a good guide in the development of the children Piaget’s analysis.

References

Bobby O, (2008), Applying Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development to Mathematics Instruction: The Mathematics Educator 2008, Vol. 18, No. 1, 26–30

Lutz, S., & Huitt, W. (2004). Connecting cognitive development and constructivism: Implications from theory for instruction and assessment. Constructivism in the HumanSciences,9 (1), 67-90

Wood, K. C., Smith, H., Grossniklaus, D. (2001). Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development. In M. Orey (Ed.), Emerging perspectives on learning, teaching, and technology. Retrieved from http://projects.coe.uga.edu/epltt