Plans for April 26

• By the end of the period you should be able to

• Briefly explain who Piaget is

• Identify the ages and names of his first two stages

• Briefly explain the focus of each stage

• Explain what object permanence is how you know a child has attained it.

Read Cognitive Development

• The link is on my website

• Who is Piaget?

• What is he know for?

• After you read continue with the power point

Piaget

Cognitive Development

Copy these notes

Piaget Terms to know

• Schemes- Mental patterns that guide behavior/an organized cognitive list

• Assimilation- using old methods to deal with new situations

• Accommodation- changing methods to adjust to new situations

• Centration- focusing only on one aspect of a situation

• Reversibility- objects can be changed and then returned to the original state

Read the sensorimotor and preoperational stages

• Link is on my website- Piaget reading 2

• Write one sentence in packet to explain the sensorimotor stage and one to explain the preoperational stage

Copy Notes

• Sensorimotor and Preoperational stages

• You need to be able to name the stage, identify the age and briefly explain what goes on during the stage

Sensory Motor

• Birth - age 2

Sensory Motor

• Characteristic

• a. learning is done through exploring with their senses

• - touch, taste, hear…

• - children who cannot use one of their senses compensate by highly developing another sense

• b. children begin to understand that objects are not part of themselves

• c. thinking is displayed in action

Developmental Achievements

• Object permanence

• a. understanding that things still exist even if they cannot see them

• b. usually occurs at 8 months

• c. you know they have obtained it if they look for things when you hide them

Object permanence

• Watch this video

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y-JVhjS0&playnext=1&list=PL5B4A3359FFD3DE48

• Link for this video is on my website

Pre-Op

• 2-7

Preoperational Stage

• Characteristics-

• a. Egocentric-can only think of things based on their experiences- cannot see another’s point of view

Example of egocentricism

• Watch this video

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OinqFgsIbh0

• Link is on my website

Pre-op continued

• b. Animism- inanimate objects

are capable of actions or lifelike qualities

• Ex- the sidewalk made me fall

• my stuffed animal is sad

Arificialism

• Things that happen in nature are created by humans

• example- the gods are bowling

apply what you know

• As a table, come up with 2 examples of animism and one example of artificialism

• - write them in on the side of your outline

Pre-op continued

• preoperational kids are not very good at thinking things out so they ask lots of questions.

• They have a tough time understanding what if

Developmental achievement• a. Language

• b. Use of symbols to represent things

• - understanding a picture of an apple represents a real apple and can represent the letter A

• c. readiness for operational thought

• operational thought means being able to do things mentally (without concrete objects)

Assignment for Wednesday

• Find a toy that would be appropriate for a kid in the sensorimotor stage-

• Find a picture of the toy

• Write down the name of the toy

• Explain how it is used

• Why would this be a good toy for a sensory motor kid?

Stop here

Concrete Operations• Ages 7- adolescence (11)

• 1. Characteristics

• a. Use of simple logic

• b. Use of simple mental representations

• - they no longer need to use their fingers to do simple math or show how old they are

Developmental Achievements• a. Conservation-matter doesn’t

increase or decrease because of the change in form

• Conservation of Liquid- the amount of liquid doesn’t change if it changes form ( moves to a taller glass)

• Conservation of number- The amount doesn’t change if things get spaced out

Lack of Conservation of Liquid

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLj0IZFLKvg&feature=autoplay&list=PL5B4A3359FFD3DE48&index=21&playnext=2

Lack of conservation of number

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLj0IZFLKvg&feature=autoplay&list=PL5B4A3359FFD3DE48&index=21&playnext=2

• a. Reversibility- math operations can be undone

• b. Class inclusion/Heirarchy-understanding the hierarchical nature of classifications ( red flowers and yellow flowers are all flowers)

• c. Seriation- arranging objects according to size

Formal Operations

• 1. Characteristics

• a. abstract thinking- what might happen?

• b.Concrete objects are not needed

• c.Everyone doesn’t achieve this

Do this now...

• Quizlet Paiget matching quiz

• Homework- last page of packet

• Quiz Friday