Characteristics of children's cognitive development
1、? Perceptual motor stage (0-2 years old)
Cognitive activities in the perceptual movement stage mainly gain sports experience by exploring the relationship between sensory perception and movement. The symbol of this stage is that the child gradually gains the eternity of the honorary object in 9- 12 months.
2. Preoperative stage (2-7 years old)
In the pre-operation stage, children can use images and symbolic thinking, that is, children can use one thing to represent or represent other things to describe the external world.
3. Specific operation stage (7- 1 1 year)
The concept of conservation has been formed in thinking, and children have acquired the concept of conservation of length, volume, weight and area.
4. Formal operation stage (1 1 years later)
In the stage of formal operation, children's thinking has surpassed the dependence on concrete sensible things, liberated form from content and entered the stage of formal operation. The most representative research is the simple pendulum experiment, and children can complete the simple pendulum test alone.