Cognitive Development- Piaget's Four Stage Theory

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Across
  1. 4. the stage in development from 2-7 years, when the child is increasingly able to assimilate and accommodate ideas and therefore think and imagine in more complex ways
  2. 5. difficulty in seeing things from another person’s perspective.
  3. 6. understanding that something can change from one state to another.
  4. 10. behaviour that is carried out with a particular purpose in mind
  5. 15. Piaget's nationality
  6. 16. a way of thinking that does not rely on being able to see or visualise things in order to understand concepts.
  7. 19. the continuous process of using the environment to learn, and adjusting to changes that occur in the environment
  8. 21. taking in new information and fitting it into an existing mental idea
Down
  1. 1. understanding that an object’s weight, mass, volume or area remains the same even if the object changes shape in appearance.
  2. 2. organising information into categories based on common features
  3. 3. a mental idea or organised mental representation of what something is and how to deal with it.
  4. 7. the mental ability to reason soundly and systematically on the basis of known information
  5. 8. the stage about 12 years of age where complex thought processes become evident and thinking becomes incredibly sophisticated.
  6. 9. A Swiss developmental psychologist and philosopher known for his studies with children in cognitive development
  7. 11. this stage in development is from 7-12 years. The thinking in this stage revolves around what children know and what they can experience through their senses (what is ‘concrete’).
  8. 12. changing an existing mental idea in order to fit new information
  9. 13. understanding that objects still exist even if they cannot be seen or touched.
  10. 14. following a line of reasoning back to its original starting point.
  11. 17. The first stage of cognitive development, when infants construct their knowledge of the world by co-ordinating sensory experiences with motor abilities.
  12. 18. focussing on only one quality or feature of an object at a time
  13. 20. Believing that everything which exists has some kind of consciousness or awareness