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“Assessing Preoperational and Concrete Operational Thinking in Two Children”


PSYC 402 Developmental Psychology


University of New Brunswick/Humber Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning

Collaborative Bachelor of Nursing Program




Student: Tatiana Velasquez

Professor: Rena Borovilos



Date Due: March 15th, 2007


















Assessing preoperational and concrete operational thinking in two children

Introduction
Jean Piaget was born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland in 1896 and past away at the age of 85 in Geneva in 1980. When he was 27 years old, he married Valentine Châtenay. They had three children, who were intellectually analyzed by Piaget in order to reinforce his knowledge about cognitive developmental psychology. How does knowledge grow? It was a question that Piaget wondered for many years, until he developed the theory of cognitive development in children (genetic epistemology) in 1969. According to his theory, the growth of knowledge is a process of escalation from a low logical stage in which sensory experiences and motoric actions are explored to a higher logical and abstract kind of deductive reasoning developed in adolescence. Sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational are the four developmental stages that Piaget proposed in his theory.
The Sensorimotor stage (Birth-2 years) analyzes the experiences children explore through the coordination of sensation and motor activity.
In the preoperational thinking (2-7 years old), children start to represent their surroundings with symbols such as images, drawings, and words. They also begin their intuitive kind of reasoning. Egocentrism and Centration are key...