PSY 201 Piagets Worksheet

Piaget's Worksheet

PSY/201

Associate Level Material

Appendix B

Piaget Worksheet

Directions: Review Module 26 of Psychology and Your Life. Complete the matrix below and answer the questions that follow.

Cognitive stage Age range Major characteristics

Sensorimotor Birth- 2 years Development of motor skills, little competence in representing the environment by using images, language, or other symbols (Feldman, 2013 pg. 314).

Preoperational 2-7 years Development of language and symbolic thinking, egocentric thinking (Feldman, 2013 pg. 314).

Concrete Operational Mastery 7-12 years Development of conservation and increase logical thinking (Feldman, 2013 pg. 314).

Formal Operational 12- Adulthood Development of thinking abstractly and the...