Analyzing Piaget's Observational Stage

Although I appreciate Piaget’s research, when I read the findings and looked at the ages I knew they were not accurate. Thus, I was relieved to read that his theories are in the process of being refined (p. 74). Anyway, my children were toddlers, around two-ish and they knew the difference between right and wrong. According to Piaget’s findings (p. 73), that would put them either in the Sensorimotor Stage or in the Preoperational Stage, depending on if they were closer to early twos or later twos, almost three. Regardless, I vividly remember them capable of saying that so and so was “bad” for misbehaving during play dates. However, at that age, they did not understand that murder was wrong, nor did they know what murder was. Additionally, this question can be tough, because in the case of my children they were clueless about murder. Professionally, I have worked with children for years and some of children, due to life experiences did know what murder was, but they didn’t think that it was wrong. On the other hand, some children knew murder was wrong by kindergarten. In addition, because individuals are so different, some people never reach the fourth stage of Piaget’s findings, the Formal Operation Stage. For example, Brendan Dassey who is now in his mid-twenties, was sentenced to life in prison at the age of sixteen for supposedly planning a murder with his uncle. However, Brendan is intellectually disabled, thus the cops utilized psychological interrogating tactics to finagle …show more content…
However, I do not think that children should be tried as adults when they commit crimes. Additionally, I know that once an individual reaches the age of eighteen, they are legally an adult, but honestly, I think that eighteen year olds are still children. I hope I didn’t offend anyone with that statement, but I was eighteen, and now that I’m older I realize just how young eighteen actually