childhood (3-12 years)
Childhood is the stage of where you are building on what you just learned from infancy. You start using intuitive reasoning and later logic and knowledge to make decisions about events. One also starts solving mathematical expressions. Listed below are characteristics children go through in this stage.
Egocentrism (Age: begins at 2 but continues through childhood)
Egocentrism means "the preoperational child's difficulty taking another's point of view." Preoperational means "the stage during which a child learns to use language but does not yet comprehend the mental operations of concrete logic." Piaget basically said this meant that children cannot take the viewpoint of others..
(Picture:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2224046/Peekaboo-Cambridge-scientists-discover-children-think-invisible-hide-eyes.html)
Egocentrism means "the preoperational child's difficulty taking another's point of view." Preoperational means "the stage during which a child learns to use language but does not yet comprehend the mental operations of concrete logic." Piaget basically said this meant that children cannot take the viewpoint of others..
(Picture:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2224046/Peekaboo-Cambridge-scientists-discover-children-think-invisible-hide-eyes.html)
Language Development (Age: begins at 2 but continues until 6 or 7 years)
Children are developing language in the preoperational stage. Preoperational means "the stage during which a child learns to use language but does not yet comprehend the mental operations of concrete logic." In this stage, they are representing items with pictures and words.
(Picture:http://blog.abcmusicandme.com/archives/2367)
Children are developing language in the preoperational stage. Preoperational means "the stage during which a child learns to use language but does not yet comprehend the mental operations of concrete logic." In this stage, they are representing items with pictures and words.
(Picture:http://blog.abcmusicandme.com/archives/2367)
Conservation (Age: 7-11 years)
Conservation means "the principle that properties such as mass, volume, and number remain the same despite changes in the forms or objects." Piaget thought this was apart of concrete operational reasoning which is when "children gain the mental operations that enable them to think logically about concrete events."
(Picture:http://homepage.psy.utexas.edu/homepage/class/Psy379H/Diehl/)
Conservation means "the principle that properties such as mass, volume, and number remain the same despite changes in the forms or objects." Piaget thought this was apart of concrete operational reasoning which is when "children gain the mental operations that enable them to think logically about concrete events."
(Picture:http://homepage.psy.utexas.edu/homepage/class/Psy379H/Diehl/)
Theory of Mind (Age: 3.5-4 years)
Theory of mind means "people's ideas about their own and others' mental states--about their feelings, perceptions, and thoughts and the behavior these might predict." This means that a preschooler can infer feelings from other students. They can also be able to tease, laugh, empathize, etc. with other students.
(Picture:http://www.womeninthebible.net/meditation_friendship.htm)
Theory of mind means "people's ideas about their own and others' mental states--about their feelings, perceptions, and thoughts and the behavior these might predict." This means that a preschooler can infer feelings from other students. They can also be able to tease, laugh, empathize, etc. with other students.
(Picture:http://www.womeninthebible.net/meditation_friendship.htm)
Development of Self-Concept (Age: have developed by age 12)
Self-concept means "a sense of one's identity and personal worth." Charles Darwin suggested this starts when an infant first sees its face. This has been tested by putting rouge on a mirror and infants touching their nose knowing it's being covered. We can track that a child's self-concept is growing based on them describing themselves.
(Picture:http://www.icare4autism.org/news/2012/03/uk-engineer-developing-new-tools-to-help-son-with-autism/)
Self-concept means "a sense of one's identity and personal worth." Charles Darwin suggested this starts when an infant first sees its face. This has been tested by putting rouge on a mirror and infants touching their nose knowing it's being covered. We can track that a child's self-concept is growing based on them describing themselves.
(Picture:http://www.icare4autism.org/news/2012/03/uk-engineer-developing-new-tools-to-help-son-with-autism/)