Piaget's Toy Connection

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Piaget's Toy Connection

Hannah Marable

Hon. Psychology

Preoperational Stage

Leap frog math programs are an ideal way for children to practice their math skills and still have fun.

One - Word Speech

Concrete Operations

Piaget’s Sensorimotor

Playing with cheap or toy cameras is great for children of this age. It shows them that they are many ways to look at things, and help them begin to understand that are viewpoints other than their own.

From seven to twelve years of age, children begin to be able to think logically about many things in the concrete operations stage. For example, children can begin to do simple math operations. Conservation, the idea that a changing the form of a substance or object does not change its quantity, is mastered during this stage.

At one years old, most infants are saying one word, such as, "mama" or "uh-oh."

From birth to about the age of two, Jean Piaget considers infants to be in sensorimotor stage. During this time, babies explore the world through their senses. Beginning at 18 months, children begin to understand the concept of object permanence - the idea that just because you can't see an object doesn't mean it is not there. Peek-a-boo is a great game to encourage the learning of object permanence.

From two to seven years of age, children are in the preoperational stage. This means that they have not yet realized that they are perspectives other than their own. One of Piaget's first experiments involved using a three-dimensional display of a mountain scene. Children are asked to choose a picture that showed the scene they had observed. This was a piece of cake for most children. However, next, children are asked to select a picture showing what someone else would have observed when looking at the mountain from a different viewpoint. The participants always chose their own viewpoint, as they were unable to to take on another person's perspective. This seemingly selfish perspective is known as egocentrism.

pre-teen years

the little babies are growing up...

1-2 YO.

INFANCY

BIRTH

Estimating the number of jelly beans in a jar instigates abstract thinking and gives children an opportunity to think outside the box.

Whole Sentence Speech

Telegraphic Speech

Babbling

The games on this activity center teach colors, numbers, sounds, animals, music, and shapes. It's great for a babbling child to get a taste of these!

Formal Operations

From birth to four months of age, infants are in the babbling stage. They make repetitive sounds, but do not form words. According to Noah Chomsky, we are born with a LAD (a language acquisition device) that helps us to learn a language easily. BF Skinner disagrees - he believe we learn a language through experiences of interaction.

At the age of two, children are usually considered to be in the telegraphic speech period. They can form sentences that make sense with words in the right order, but something, usually a noun or verb, is missing. For example, "get milk" or "play toy." The sentences are direct, and right to the point, like a telegram.

By three years of age, children can speak in whole sentences. They have a good understanding of verbs, nouns, adjectives, and how to use them. Children learn much faster than we give them credit for!

By age 12, children can think logically about non-concrete operations, such as thinking about people that are not with them or what the weather will be like two weeks from now. This is known as formal operations. This requires abstract thinking. A good example of formal operations is guessing how many jelly beans are in a jar. It requires out of the box thinking. Irreversibility he inability to work backwards the place where you began. Not only do children development mentally and socially, they also development physically, fine tuning motor skills. This is known as motor development.

Toy phones are a fun way for children to practice speaking.