Mental Health

Cognitive Theory
Jamelle Herbert
Batch 124B

Hypothesis
Cognition is the mental activity
and behaviour that allows us to
understand the world. It includes
the functions of learning,
perception, memory, and
thinking; and it is influenced by
biological, environmental,
experimental, social, and

Piaget divided intellectual

development into four
unique periods and there
are:
Sensori-Motor- in this stage, which
lasts from birth to roughly two years,
children learn by using their senses
and moving around. Be the end of the
sensorimotor period, and children
become capable of symbolic thought,
which means they can represent
objects in terms of mental symbols.
More important, children achieve

Pre-Operational- this is the

second stage of piagets theory of
development. Children enter this
stage at age two and continue
through age six or seven. The
major development milestone
during pre-operational is the
development of the symbolic
function, or the ability to use
symbols such as words, images

Concrete Operational- this is

the third stage of piagets theory
of development. This stage
begins at age seven and end at
age twelve. During this stage,
children become capable of
performing mental operations or
working through problems and
ideas in their minds.

Formal Operational- this is the

final stage of piagets theory of
development. This stage begins
at age eleven and continues
through adulthood. During this
stage, the ability of full logic and
reasoning processes are used
and you become capable of
applying mental operations to
abstract concepts.

Cognitive theory as it relates to

mental health
Since cognitive theory is based on the
learning, from birth to adulthood, once
that person can be able to show signs
of logical thinking and good reasoning
process about situations whether it is
in real events or in abstracts in their
environment, social life or any factors
and it is acceptable and
understandable in their society, they