COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT

I.PIAGET 'S COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENTAL THEORY

II. OVERVIEW AND KEY TERMS

A. CONSTRUCTIVISM

B. ASSIMILATION

C. ACCOMODATION

D. EQUILIBRATION E. SCHEMES

III. METHODS OF STUDY

IV. STAGES OF COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT

A.THE SENSORIMOTOR STAGE (BIRTH TO 2 YEARS )

1. SUBSTAGES

MONTHS               FAGAN                               PIAGET                                BEHAVIOR                          

0-1                        REFLEXIVE                          REFLEXES                          SUCKING ON HAND

1-5                       REPETITIOUS             PRIMARY CIRCULAR        WATCHING HAND WAVE

                                                                              REACTIONS

5-9                 ACTIONS PRODUCE       SECONDARY CIRCULAR          HITTING MOBILE

                                EFFECTS                            REACTIONS

9-12            AN ACT AS A MEANS          COORDINATION OF              MOVE BARRIER

                            TO AN END                  SECONDARY SCHEMES              TO GET TOY

12-18               NEW MEANS FOR            TERTIARY CIRCULAR           GRASP STRING

                        NEW SITUATIONS                  REACTIONS                         TO GET TOY

18-24              USE OBJECTS AS                 BEGINNINGS OF                      USE STICK TO

                     MEANS TO AN END          REPRESENTATIONAL               RAKE IN TOY

                                                                             THOUGHT

2. THE DEVELOPMENT OF A SCHEMA

THE HAND IS GOOD TO SUCK ON

THE HAND MOVES

THE HAND MAKES THE MOBILE MOVE

THE HAND IS AN EXTENSION OF ME

OTHER OBJECTS ALSO HAVE EXTENSIONS

I CAN COMBINE MY ARM WITH A SEPARATE OBJECT TO ACCOMPLISH A GOAL

B. PREOPERATIONAL STAGE (EGOCENTRISM) (2 TO 7 YRS)

1. PRE CONCEPTUAL SUBSTAGE (SYMBOLISM) (2 TO 4 YRS)

2. INTUITIVE SUBSTAGE (FAIL TO CONSERVE) (4 TO 7 YRS)

C. CONCRETE OPERATIONAL STAGE (CONSERVES) (7 TO 11 YRS)

D. FORMAL OPERATIONAL STAGE (ABSTRACTS) (11 YEARS ON)

V. TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER - EDUCATION VI. CRITIQUE OF METHODS

VII. RECENT RESEARCH ON PIAGET' S THEORY

A. SENSORIMOTOR DEVELOPMENT

       OBJECT PERMANENCE AND DEFERRED IMITATION

B. PREOPERATIONAL THOUGHT

       E GO CENTR I SM

C. CONCRETE OPERATIONAL THOUGHT

       TRAINING, QUESTIONS, AND CULTURE

D. FORMAL OPERATIONAL THOUGHT TRAINING AND CULTURE

VIII. CONTINUITY OR DISCONTINUITY?

IX THE NEOPIAGETIANS

A. ROBERT SIEGLER

X. VYGOTSKY'S SOCIOCtJLTURAL THEORY

A. ZONE OF PROXIMAL DEVELOPMENT

XI. FAGAN'S THEORY

A. COGNITION AS PROCESSING

B. THE CONTINUITY OF PROCESSING

C. THE GROWTH OF KNOWLEDGE

D . FROM THE GENERAL TO THE SPECIFIC

E. THE ROLE OF INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES

F. THE ZONE OF PROXIMAL DEVELOPMENT AS