Although both Piaget and Vygotsky focused on child development, their theories were different, Piaget believed that children go through set stages of cognitive development, and Vygotsky believed that cognitive development is a continual thing. Piaget believed that children went through specific stages. His stages were Sensorimotor (infant), Preoperational (toddler through early elementary), Concrete operational (school age) and Formal operational (adolescence through adulthood). Piaget’s view is that a child explores their environment collecting and exchanging knowledge with those persons around him, this collection and exchange helps in the social development through social interaction. Through this continued style of development all a child’s
