PIAGET'S STAGES OF COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT

The ability of the child to perceive the distinctive features of objects and situations.

• Decentering

• Schema

• Accommodation

• Equilibration

Individuals experience cognitive conflicts or discrepancies between what is perceived and what is understood.

• Schema

• Cognitive disequilibrium

• Decentering

• Equilibration

The ability to think logically by applying a general rule to a particular instance or situation.

• Accommodation

• Equilibration

• Decentering

• Deductive reasoning

The process of fitting a new experience into an existing or previously created cognitive structure or schema.

• Schema

• Assimilation

• Equilibration

• Deductive Reasoning

Achieving proper balance between assimilation and accommodation.

• Equilibration

• Assimilation

• Decentering

• Accommodation

The process of creating a new schema.

• Schema

• Decentering

• Deductive Reasoning

• Accomodation

This is the ability of the child to know that an object still exist even when out of sight.

• Symbolic function

• Object permanence

• Centration

• Animism

The ability of the child to perceive the different features of object and situations.

• Conservation

• Decentering

• Reversibility

• Seriation

The tendency of the child to only see his point of view and to assume that everyone also has his same point of view.

• Egocentrism

• Transductive reasoning

• Decentering

• Reversibility

The ability to know that certain properties of objects like number, mass, volume, or area do not change even if there is a change in appearance.

• Hypothetical Reasoning

• Reversibility

• Conservation

• Irreversibility