Cognitive Development

in Childhood
[Professor Name]
[Class Section Number]

Overview
Introduction
Nature vs. Nurture
Continuous and Discontinuous
Development
Piagets Stages of Development
Activity

Application to Education
Activity

Introduction
Development?
How to study it?
Stages or
continuous?

Overview
Introduction
Nature vs. Nurture
Continuous and Discontinuous
Development
Piagets Stages of Development
Activity

Application to Education
Activity

Nature and Nurture

Nature Biology
Nurture
Environment

The Great Debate

Choices and
Decisions

Overview
Introduction
Nature vs. Nurture
Continuous and Discontinuous
Development
Piagets Stages of Development
Activity

Application to Education
Activity

Continuous and
Discontinuous
Development
What is
Continuous
Development?

What is
Discontinuous
Development?

Overview
Introduction
Nature vs. Nurture
Continuous and Discontinuous
Development
Piagets Stages of Development
Activity

Application to Education
Activity

Piagets Theory of
Cognitive Development
Sensorimot
or Stage

Preoperation
al Reasoning

Concrete
Operationa
l

Formal
Operationa
l

Birth to 2
Years

2 to 6 or 7
Years

6 or 7 to
11 or 12
Years

11 or 12 Lifetime

Intelligence
in action:
child
interacts
with
environment
by
manipulatin

Thinking dominated
by perception, but
child becomes more
capable of symbolic
functioning;
conservation
problem; language
development

Logical
reasoning
only applied
to objects
that are real
or can be
seen

Individual
can think
logically
about
potential
events or
abstract
ideas;

Object Permanence

Overview
Introduction
Nature vs. Nurture
Continuous and Discontinuous
Development
Piagets Stages of Development
Activity

Application to Education
Activity

Applications to
Education
Nurture
Reading
Mathematics

Nature
Brain Activity

Overview
Introduction
Nature vs. Nurture
Continuous and Discontinuous
Development
Piagets Stages of Development
Activity

Application to Education
Activity

Activity
Habituation

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