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PREOPERATIONAL REPRESENTATION [4 records]

Record 1 2016-02-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Personality Development
CONT

Assimilation and accommodation as component processes of adaptation in the first two years of life develop into sensorimotor intelligence, which coordinates perception and movement sequences.

CONT

In his theory of the development of intelligence in stages, Piaget distinguishes four different periods of development relative to the form of organization of cognitive structures, and passing organically into one another : the periods of(a) sensorimotor intelligence,(b) preoperational representation,(c) concrete operations and(d) formal operations. The period of sensorimotor intelligence embraces the time when development is taking place from the first reflex-like forms of behavior shortly after birth, passing through the first motor habits, the connecting of means and ends, and active experimentation, and finally reaching the stage of spontaneous invention and the internalization of what until then were sensorimotor schemata, at the age of 1 1/2 to 2 years.

Key term(s)
  • sensory-motor intelligence

French

Domaine(s)
  • Développement de la personnalité
CONT

Selon Piaget le développement mental comporte trois grandes périodes, la première d'intelligence sensori-motrice, de la naissance à deux ans environ (avec 6 stades), la deuxième de préparation et organisation des opérations concrètes, de 2 à 11 ans environ (avec 5 stades), et la troisième des opérations formelles, de 11 à 14 ans (avec 2 stades).

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Record 2 2016-02-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Personality Development
CONT

In his theory of the development of intelligence in stages, Piaget distinguishes four different periods of development relative to the form of organization of cognitive structures, and passing organically into one another : the periods of(a) sensorimotor intelligence,(b) preoperational representation,(c) concrete operations and(d) formal operations(...) But, whereas operations at this stage [concrete operations] are still bound up with concrete activity, at the last stage of development of intelligence, the period of formal operations(11 to 15 years), they become independent of the concrete object, and the individual acquires the capacity to draw purely formal conclusions from hypothetical assumptions.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Développement de la personnalité
CONT

On appelle "opérations formelles" les opérations de la pensée qui portent sur des propositions et des hypothèses sans support concret. Prolongeant les opérations concrètes qu'elles dépassent en les intégrant, les opérations formelles apparaissent à partir de douze à treize ans.

Spanish

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Record 3 1981-08-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Personality Development
CONT

In his theory of the development of intelligence in stages, Piaget distinguishes four different periods of development relative to the forms of organization of cognitive structures, and passing organically into one another : the periods of(a) sensorimotor intelligence,(b) preoperational representation,(c) concrete operations and(d) formal operations.... At about the age of 7, thinking loses its egocentric and unilaterally centered character and, at the stage of "concrete operations"(7-11 years) reaches a mobile state of balance marked by a system of now reversible coordinated transformations.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Développement de la personnalité
CONT

Selon ce dernier auteur [Piaget], on peut distinguer cinq étapes principales dans le développement intellectuel de l'enfant; 1- une période sensori-motrice (...) 2- une période préopératoire (...) 3- une époque intuitive (...) 4- une période dite des opérations concrètes (de huit à onze-douze ans), où, malgré l'acquisition des notions de classe, de série, de nombre, de causalité, la pensée reste liée au concret; 5- le stade de la logique adulte, dite des opérations formelles ou propositionnelles (...)

Key term(s)
  • niveau opératoire concret
  • stade opératoire concret

Spanish

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Record 4 1981-08-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Personality Development
CONT

With the elaboration of basic schemata, thinking begins to develop, and moves from the preoperational stage (beginning with the symbolic function) to concrete operational thought, when the adolescent is able to think reflectively about the logical operations themselves and use them systematically (...)

CONT

The preoperational stage runs from eighteen months to about seven years of age.

Key term(s)
  • preoperational representation

French

Domaine(s)
  • Développement de la personnalité
CONT

Le développement intellectuel de l'enfant passe, selon Piaget, par cinq étapes bien définies: 1- une période sensori-motrice (...) 2- un stade préopératoire (de deux à quatre ans), dominé par une pensée essentiellement égocentrique et anthropomorphique ("Regarde, Maman, la lune qui me suit"); 3- une époque intuitive (...) 4- un stade des opérations concrètes (...) 5- une période des opérations formelles (...)

Key term(s)
  • niveau préopératoire

Spanish

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