Piaget's Development Theory

• Cognitive development refers to how we (specifically as children) develop our cognitive ability involving:
• Memory, language, problem solving (thinking), perceptiono and attention.
• Piaget developed a stage theory of cognitive development and he suggeested that children 4 stages in a fixed order.
• Each stage is associated with a particular age group.
• Pagiet used the term operations to refer to how we reason.

• Age group: Birth to 2 years.
• How do Children learn at this stage?

By linking what they see, hear, touch, taste or smell to objects they are using.

• What is a lack of object permanence?

A lack of knowing that something exists even if it is out of sight.

• What happens by the end of this stage?

The child has a sense of themselves as seperately from the world around them.