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Cognitive Timeline

By akv369
  • Prenatal

    Prenatal
    Nothing
  • Sensorimotor Stage

    Sensorimotor Stage
    From birth to about two years of age a person experiences everything through sences and actions
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    Infancy

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    Childhood

  • Preoperational Stage

    Preoperational Stage
    From age two to seven a person is at the preoperational stage where they use intuitive instead of logic and represent thing with words as well as images
  • Seperation Anxiety

    Seperation Anxiety
    At this stage development of fear when in the presence of strangers (seperation anxiety) and object permenence
  • Egocentric

    Egocentric
    Difficulties perceiving things from another's point of view during this stage
  • Postconventional Morality

    Desicions/Actions are based on authority and personal need
  • Concrete Operational

    Concrete Operational
    At this stage a person is able to grasp the full meaning of analogies. They can preform arithmetical methods and think logically about concret events.
  • Formal Operational Stage

    Formal Operational Stage
    Abstract reasoning
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    Adolescence

  • Conventional Morality

    Decisions/Actions are based off of upholding laws and social rules
  • Postconventional Morality

    Actions are based off of internal principals and personal beliefs of "rights" and "wrongs"
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    Early Adult

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    Middle Adult

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    Late Adult

  • Aging intelligence

    Aging intelligence
    Crystallized intelligence increases as fluid intelligence decreases
  • Memory

    Memory
    Memories may begin to fade due to the development of diseases such as Alzheimer's or Dementia