Meet+Jean+Piaget

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Piaget Learning Activity

__Object Permanence Assessment of Child Age 1 to 2__ Playing with a toddler (age 1 to 2), a teacher could assess object permanence in the child. The teacher and the child are sitting on the floor facing each other. The teacher has a small ball and a small blanket or other cloth. The teacher places the ball beneath the blanket and shows the toddler her hands. She says to the toddler, "Where's the ball?" If the toddler has developed object permanence, which is identified in Piaget's Sensory-Motor Stage, he will find the ball under the blanket. Sometimes a little practice is warranted for the toddler to become familiar with this concept. Other items can be used and other locations may be used for hiding the object such as in a box or behind the back of the teacher.


 * **Stage** ||  **Age**  ||  **Description**  ||
 * Sensory-Motor Stage ||  Birth to 2 years  || Coordination of senses with motor response, sensory curiosity about the world. Language used for demands and cataloguing. Object permanence developing. ||
 * Pre-Operational Stage ||  2 to 7 years  || Symbolic thinking, use of proper syntax and grammar to express full concepts. Imagination and intuition are strong, but complex abstract thought still difficult. Conservation developed. ||
 * Concrete Operational ||  7 to 11 years  || Concepts attached to concrete situations. Time, space, and quantity are understood and can be applied, but not as independent concepts. ||
 * Formal Operations ||  11+ years  || Theoretical, hypothetical, and counter-factual thinking. Abstract logic and reasoning. Strategy and planning become possible. Concepts learned in one context can be applied to another. ||

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