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SubjectsChild Development & PedagogyChild Development & LearningChapter 3 — Piaget, Kohlberg & Vygotsky3.1 Piaget's Cognitive Development

Topic 3.1 · Child Development & Pedagogy · Piaget, Kohlberg & Vygotsky

Piaget's Cognitive Development

Piaget described four invariant stages of cognitive growth.

Each stage is built on qualitatively different ways of understanding.

Important Facts

Sensorimotor (0–2): Object permanence
Preoperational (2–7): Egocentrism & centration
Concrete (7–11): Conservation, seriation
Formal (11+): Hypothetical-deductive thought

Key Points

Stages are sequential & universal
Conservation marks the concrete stage

Important Names

Jean Piaget

Exam-Oriented Notes

»Conservation failure is the classic preoperational clue

Related topics

3.2 Vygotsky's Sociocultural Theory 3.3 Kohlberg's Moral Development

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