B.A. PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY AND ENGLISH Chapter Notes - Chapter CHAPTER 6: Health Extension Officer, Jean Piaget, Cognitive Development

• School: CHRIST (Deemed to be University)
• Department: Humanities
• Course: B.A. PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY AND ENGLISH

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Example: for a child at the preoperational stage sausage shaped bread is bigger than a ball shaped bread even though both are equal in their size. Stage three: concrete operational stage (7 11 years: the child has the ability to think reversibly. He can see for example the height, width and length of an object. Stage four: formal operational stage (11 years onwards) The ability to reason out abstractly without concrete objects or events starts. It is a form of adult thinking. This helps the child to learn science and mathematics and other subjects set in the curriculum material. In psychoanalysis this is called fixation: fixation at a particular stage may result in adult emotional problems. Oral stage (from birth to one year: activity is centered to the mouth and the child gains satisfaction from sucking, fixation may be caused by, over feeding, sometimes unprogrammed feeding, frustration of the child"s biological needs.