Sociology 2233 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Object Permanence, Cognitive Development, Intentionality
9 Mar 2017
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Piaget"s stage-dependent theory focuses on qualitative shifts in cognitive structure: ie. a (cid:395)ualitative shift i(cid:374) o(cid:374)e"s app(cid:396)oa(cid:272)h to p(cid:396)o(cid:271)le(cid:373)-solving. The equilibration process is what accounts for those small scale changes in development, which eventually contribute to qualitative shifts in cognitive structure. The sensori-motor stage is divided into 6 sub stages. In our discussion here we will do three things: provide ourselves with a general description of the stages, understand the qualitative shift that takes place between the stages. Concrete operational stage (7-puberty: they can now perform concrete operations in their minds, they use concrete content to do this though, they use concrete content to learn basic logical operations. This notion of concrete content does not imply that the child can only solve problems through the use of tangible objects, only that the problem must be tied to reality. This is the major limitation of this stage.
