COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT THEORY – PIAGET




0-2 Years Old Sensory Motor Period
2-7 Years Pre-Procedure Period
2-4 Years Old Symbolic Stage
4-7 Years Intuitive Stage




Compatibility - Experience - Dissonance



Harmony – regulation, assimilation, balancing









PIAGET STAGES OF COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT IN EARLY CHILDHOOD







SENSORY-MOTOR PERIOD 0-2 YEARS



0-1 Month Reflex movements
1-4 Months First cyclic reactions
4-8 Months Second cyclic reactions
8-12 Months Coordination of second cyclic responses
12-18 Months Third cyclical reactions
18-2 Years Mental representation








OBJECT PERMANENCE IN BABIES







0-1 Month Tracks objects in the visual field.
1-4 Months It follows when the object is moved in the visual field, but does not search when the object is hidden.
4-8 Months Follows a dropped toy or object hidden under the covers, but does not search when the object is hidden.
8-12 Months Hide remembers where the object is hidden.
12-18 Months He begins to learn that he should look for the toy in the place he last saw it.
18 Months - 2 Years He has fully acquired object permanence. He searches for the object even if it is hidden in more than one place.






2-7 YEARS OLD PRE-PROCEDURE PERIOD









There is egocentric thinking. In the preschool period, it is based on thought, perception and action.











2-4 YEARS SYMBOLIC PHASE








It is the phase where pretend games are played. (Pretend games support imagination, creativity, sustained attention and logical reasoning.)









4-7 YEARS OLD INTUITIVE STAGE











It can perform operations such as classifying, identifying and associating objects.



Perception-based thinking
One-dimensional thinking
irreversibility
Reasoning from particular to particular
egocentrism
Animism