Cognition - Mental activities of thinking, knowing, remembering, communicating

Jean Piaget (1896-1980):

  • Stages of development, children are not miniature adults and think fundamentally different
  • Schemas - representations of the owrl
  1. Sensorimotor (0-2yrs)
  2. Preoperational (2-7yrs)
  3. Concrete operational (7-11yrs) - “true logical thought”
  4. Formal operational (11+yrs)