Module 19: Cognitive Development of

Primary Schoolers
 Jean Piaget
• Foremost theorist when it comes to cognitive
development.
• Intelligence is the basic mechanism of ensuring
balance in the relations between the person and the
environment.
• Intellectual ability is not the same at different ages.
Concrete Operation Stage
• It spans from ages 7-11 years

• Third stage in Piaget’s theory of cognitive

development

• In this stage, children have better

understanding of their thinking skills. Children
begin to think logically about concrete events,
but have difficulty understanding abstract or
hypothetically concepts, thus most of them
still have a hard time in problem-solving.
 Logic
Inductive Logic Deductive Logic
• Involves thinking from a • Using a general principle to
specific experience to a determine the outcome the
general principles. outcome of specific event.
Reversibility
• One of the most important developments in
this stage is an understanding of reversibility,
or awareness that actions can be reversed. An
example of this is being able to reverse the
order of relationships between mental
categories.
 Reversibility
Example 1 Example 2
• 3+7=7 T: Jacob, do you have a brother?
• 7–4=3 J: Yes.
T: What’s his name?
J: Matthew.
T: Does Matthew have a brother?
J: Yes.
Cognitive Milestone
• Elementary- aged children learns in
sequential manner, meaning they need
to understand numbers before they can
perform a mathematical equation. Each
milestone that develops is dependent
upon the previous milestone they
achieve.
Young primary- aged children can do
the following:
 can tell left from right
 can able to speak and express
themselves
 in school, they share about themselves
and their families
 during play, they practice using the
words and language they learn from
school.
Young primary- aged children can do
the following:
 they start to understand times and
days of the week
 they enjoy rhymes, riddles and jokes
 their attention span is longer
 they can follow more involved stories
 they are learning letters and words
 by six, most can read words or
combinations of words
Information- Processing Skills
 like a computer, the human mind is a system
that can process information through the
application of logical rules and strategies.

 they also believe that the minds receives

information, performs operations to change
its form and content, stores and locates it
and generates responses from it.
SHORT TERM
MEMORY

Remembering
something that we Last for
recently saw or about 20
heard seconds
 LONG TERM
MEMORY

PROCEDURAL DECLARATIVE
MEMORY MEMORY

EPISODIC SEMANTIC
MEMORY MEMORY
• “…If you become a teacher, by
your pupils you will be taught.”
- O. Hammerstein