Question

Describe the assumptions of Piaget’s psychocognitive theory and identify the periods with its expected process within each period. When is the most common period people advance to then stop cognitive development?

Answer 1

Assumptons of Piaget's psychocognitive theory about children are

a) Children build their own knowledge based on their experiences.

b) Children learn things on their own with out influence from adult or older children.

c) Children are motivated by nature, they dont need rewards as motivation.

There are four stages of Piaget's theory, they are sensory motor stage (from birth to 18-24 month), Preoperational stage ( from 2 to 7 years), Concrete operational stage ( from 7 to 11 years) and formal operational stage ( from 11 years till adulthood )

In sensory motor period charecteristics include motor activity, learnedbased on trial and error experience. Preoperational stage ckildren shows difficult thinking outside of their view. In concrete operational period they start operational thought and working things out inside their head. Formal operational period they can think about multiple variables andcome up with hypothesis from previous knowledge.

As per Piaget theory cognitive developments ends at the formal operational stage, ie earlyadulthood.