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Sensory Motor Stage
Birth to 2 years
* NO OBJECT PERMANENCE (ex: show an infant a toy, then hide it being your back, the infant will "think" it's gone
* LACKS LANGUAGE, child uses SENSES: sight, taste, smell, hearing and touch
Pre-operational Stage
2 to 7 years old
* Preschool years
* Exhibit EGOCENTRIC THOUGHT & language.
* Concerned with ABSOLUTES -- child able to think in black and white
"Mine, mine, mine!"
Terrible 2's
Black and white thinking
Concrete Operational Stage
7 to 11 years
* Begins to think LOGICALLY
* SOLVES CONSERVATION TASKS
(Ex: as you pour the same amount of liquid from a tall glass to a short glass, ask 'Which glass has more water?')
* SOLVES LOGICAL EQUATIONS
(ex: 3+2=5 and 5-2=3)
3+2=5
Ex: as you pour the same amount of liquid from a tall glass to a short glass, ask 'Which glass has more water?'
Formal Operational Stage
Age 11 and onward
* Thinks ABSTRACTLY
* SOLVES COMPLEX & HYPOTHETICAL PROBLEMS
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