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Playing The Piaget Way

The document describes 14 examples of cognitive abilities in children and assigns each one to a stage of cognitive development proposed by Piaget. It identifies the earliest stage for each example and names the cognitive concept demonstrated when applicable. The examples range from sensorimotor stage behaviors like object permanence to formal operations stage abilities like abstract thinking.

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Playing The Piaget Way

The document describes 14 examples of cognitive abilities in children and assigns each one to a stage of cognitive development proposed by Piaget. It identifies the earliest stage for each example and names the cognitive concept demonstrated when applicable. The examples range from sensorimotor stage behaviors like object permanence to formal operations stage abilities like abstract thinking.

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Review Piaget’s stages and identify the earliest stage in which a child might exhibit each of the

following. When possible, name the concept that is described by each.

Stage Concept
1. A child can explain that 3 x 2 represents Concrete Operations N/A
three sets of two. Stage
2. A child doesn’t sneak a cookie when his Preoperational Stage Egocentrism
mom outside because he thinks that she can
see what he sees.
3. A child is asked to add 3 and 2. Using his Preoperational Stage Conservation
fingers, he counts and answers “5”. Asked to
then add 2 + 3, the child uses his fingers
again to get the same answer.
4. A child is given a cardboard box and Preoperational Stage Symbolic Thinking
pretends that it is a train.
5. A child is given a cardboard box and she Sensorimotor Stage N/A
explores it by opening and closing the flaps.
6. A child proposes that maybe the color that Formal Operations Abstract Thinking
you call “red” is the color that, if he looked Stage
with your brain, he would call “yellow”.
7. A child pushes a button on a toy and it Sensorimotor Stage N/A
makes a sound. He repeats this over and
over and over and over….
8. A child tells his friend, “I’ve got the best joke. Formal Operations N/A
What can leap higher than a tall building?” “ Stage
Anything, tall buildings can’t leap!”. The
child’s understanding of the two
interpretations of the question indicate that
he has reached this stage.
9. A child uses his understanding of molecular Formal Operations N/A
movement to predict how a gas would Stage
behave in different conditions.
10. A mother takes a toy from a child and puts it Sensorimotor Stage Object
under a blanket. The child does NOT look for Permanence
it.
11. Presented with a picture of 4 cats and 6 Concrete Operations Concrete
dogs, a child is asked, which are there more Stage Concepts
of: cats or animals? The child correctly
responds, “animals”.
12. Upon overhearing his mother mention that it Preoperational Stage N/A
is difficult for a woman to “make it to the top
of a large corporation”, the child asks why
she can’t just take the elevator.
13. Upon seeing his Aunt Sally who lives out-of- Sensorimotor Stage N/A
town, the child cries.
14. When given one cookie for snack, the child Preoperational Stage Conservation
begs for more. Her mother breaks the cookie
into two pieces and the child is happy.

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