Sorsogon State College

Magallanes Campus
Magallanes, Sorsogon
A.Y. 2016-2017
JEAN PIAGETS STAGES OF COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
CHARLES HORTON COOLEYS CONCEPT OF THE LOOKING-GLASS
SELF
GEORGE MEADS SELF-DEVELOPMENT STAGE
JEAN PIAGETS STAGES OF COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
- a Swiss psychologist.
- formulated another theory of specific stages of human
development.
- his primary focus is on the development of cognitive activity, the
use of thinking and language.
STAGES OF COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
1. SENSORY STAGE (from birth to 18 months of age)
- infants are primarily concerned with their own senses and motor
activities.
- very little of their behavior involves language or thinking.
- during this stage, infants are involved in the process of adapting
basic reflexes to interact with objects and others in the
environment.
- at eighteen (18) months, infants move their arms to make a
plastic toy move or to bring a rattle to their months. Being aware
of various objects and being able to identify some of them,
infants can adapt a learned solution for different situations.
2. Pre-operational Stage (from about 18 months to 7 years
of age)
- children have total object permanence and are learning to use
language to communicate with others.
- also, children now imitate the action of others but view the world
from their own perspective.
- children at this stage are highly egocentric and do not make
distinction between their own thoughts and feelings and those of
others.
- Piaget calls this stage pre-operational.
3. CONCRETE OPERATIONAL STAGE (from about 7 to 11
years of age)
- the thinking of children remains tied to the concrete world.

at this stage, children can perform a variety of operations that

are related to weight,speed, number, and quantity.
children at this stage have no ability to generalize beyond their
own actual experience.
they are no longer highly egocentric.

4. FORMAL OPERATIONAL STAGE (begins when the onset of

adolescence at about age 11)
- at this stage, children begin to think in terms of general
principles, abstract concepts, and theories.
- they are also able to think scientifically.
- they can approach a problem with several solutions by discussion
and reasoning.
CHARLES HORTON COOLEYS CONCEPT OF THE LOOKINGGLASS SELF
Cooley developed the concept of the looking-glass self to show
how others influence the image we have of ourselves. The self, which
is essentially an individuals awareness of his/her social or personal
identity was for Cooley a social development.
According to Cooley, there are three steps in the formation of the
looking-glass self:
1. We imagine how we appear to others.
2. We imagine how others judge our appearance.
3. We develop feelings about and responses to these judgments.
The looking-glass self is made up of feelings about other
peoples judgments of ones behavior. The self consists of a composite
of the persons more or less accurate assessments of others
judgments. To Cooley, this social self was the central element of
society. The imaginations, which people have of one another, are the
solids facts of society.
GEORGE MEADS SELF-DEVELOPMENT STAGE
According to Mead, there are three (3) stages in the development of
the self:
1. PREPARATORY STAGE
- during this stage, children imitate the behavior of others in the
environment.

2. PLAY STAGE
- during the play stage, children assume or play several roles, one
after another.
- they playfully imitate the roles of the significant others .
3. GAME STAGE
- children assume several roles simultaneously.
- they are able to take the role or attitude of what Mead called the
generalized others.
Reported by:
JOED JOIE J. JERAO
BEED-II