Cognitive development;  1) Sensorimotor stage  2) Pre-operational stage  3) Concrete operational stage  4) Formal operational stage

1. COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
IN PSYCHOLOGY
PRESENTED BY:-SYED
JAUWAD

2. COGNITIVE
DEVELOPMENT
 Cognitive development is the construction of
thought
processes, including remembering, problem
solving and
decision making from childhood through
adolescence to adulthood.
 It refers to how a person perceives, thinks and
gains
understanding of his/her world through the
interaction of genetic and
learned factors.
 Everyday experiences can impact a child’s
cognitive

3. COGNITIVE
DEVELOPMENT
Cognitive development provides children
with the means
of paying attention to thinking about the
world around them.
Piaget forming his’Theory of Cognitive
Development’, proposed four stages of
Cognitive development;
 1) Sensorimotor stage
 2) Pre-operational stage
 3) Concrete operational stage
 4) Formal operational stage

4. 1)SENSORIMOTOR
STAGE (INFANCY)
Sensorimotor stage lasts from birth to
two years old. In this stage behaviour
lack a sense of thought.
Behaviors gradually move from acting
upon inherited reflexes to interacting with
the environment with a goal in mind and
being able to represent the external
world at the end.
In this stage the child gains the ability
to mentally represent reality.

5. 2)PRE-OPERATIONAL
STAGE (EARLY CHILDHOOD)
Pre-operational stage lasts from 2
years of age until the age of 6 or 7.
In this stage, there should be an
ability to comprehend that another
individual may have different emotional
responses to similar experiences.

6. 3) CONCRETE
OPERATIONAL STAGE
(EARLY ADOLESCENCE)
 Concrete operational stage lasts
from 6 or 7 years until about 12 or 13.
 In this stage, the child’s cognitive
structures can be characterized by
reality.
 One of the best known
achievements of this stage is the
development in conversations.

7. 4) FORMAL OPERATIONAL
STAGE (ADOLESCENCE AND
ADULTHOOD)
Formal operational stage lasts from 12
or 13 until adulthood.
In this stage, the child advances from
logical reasoning with concrete
examples to abstract ones.
In this stage, adolescence are also
able to view themselves in the future
and can picture the ideal life they would
like to pursue.

8. ROLE OF LANGUAGE IN
COGNITIVE
DEVELOPMENT
The developmental stages of language
are;
 1. 6 months. : babbling, all sounds.
 2. 9 months. : narrowing of sounds.
 3. 11 months : first words.
 4. 18 months. :two word combinations.
 5. 2-3 years :word order, inflections.
 6. 4-5 years :nearly complex syntax.
 7. 5-7 years. : complex production.
 8. 9 years. :understands all forms.
 9. 11-13 years :final shift in complexity.

9. SKILLS UNDER COGNITIVE
DEVELOPMENT
 Logic and reasoning
 Memmory
 Attention
 Control
 Flexibility, ability to adapt
 Evaluation and analysing skills
 Ability to make comparison
 Critical thinking

10. CONCLUSION
The growth and development of the mental abilities and
capacities which helps an individual to adjust his
behaviour to
the ever changing environmental conditions is referred to
as
cognitive development.
The process of the mental growth and development is
responsible for the development of an individual’s all
cognitive,
mental or intellectual abilities.
These abilities are interrelated and never develop in
isolation. So cognitive development of an individual at any
stage of his development includes the overall
development of
these abilities.