This document discusses Jean Piaget's four stages theory of cognitive development. [1] It presents Piaget's view that human intelligence develops in four stages from birth through adulthood. [2] The four stages are: the sensorimotor stage (ages 0-2 years), the preoperational stage (ages 2-7 years), the concrete operational stage (ages 7-11 years), and the formal operational stage (ages 11 years and up). [3] The document poses questions about Piaget's theory and human intelligence development.

2. Warm – up activity
Jean Piaget’s Biography
The Four stages theory
Activity
Closing questions
Cuestion from the public

3.  Let’s answer the following questions:
o Are human beings intelligent since birth?
o Does that intelligence differ from an adult’s
intelligence? In which way?
o Do you think that intelligence can develop? How?
o At what age does a human start being “properly
intelligent”?
o What is “cognitive development”?

4. (Neuchatel, 1896; Geneva, 1980)

5. Nature and development of
human intelligence.
Children’s minds.
The mind processes new
information.
Person's ability.

6. about 0-2 years
The acquisition
of language.
Seeing and
hearing.
Adaption.
Assimilation
and
accomodation.

7. About 4-7years.
Use his new
knowledge .
Tranductive
Egocentrism
Himself and his
envioronment
No truly logical
fashion.

8.  About 7 and 11 years.
 the appropriate use of logic.
Important processes during
this stage are:
 Seriation
 Transitivity
 Classification
 Decentering
 Reversibility
 Conservation
 Elimination of Egocentrism

9.  Around 11 years and
continues into
adulthood.
 Rational judgements.
 Hypothetical and
deductive reasoning.
 Solving problems.
 The adolescent is
able to understand
things such as
“ love”.

10. Guessing activity
Who’s in which stage?

11. 1. Do you agree with Piaget’s Theory? Why?
2. If only since the formal operation stage
children begin to understand love, how can
you explain love in small children ?
3. At this point, do you think that mental
abilities such as hearing and seeing are
developed before birth?
4.As the educators of the future, do you find
this information useful? How can it be used
in EFL teaching?

13. “Only education is capable of saving
our societies from possible collapse,
whether violent, or gradual.“
(Jean Piaget,As the Director of the International
Bureau of Education, in 1934)