Explain Piaget's Understanding Of The Four Stages Of Cognitive Development

2. Piaget’s understanding of how the life develops consists of four stages of cognitive development. This includes Sensory-Motor stage, which is the first stage, this if from birth to two years old. The Preoperational stage is from two to seven years old. Next stage is the concrete operations, which is from seven to eleven years old. Lastly there’s the Formal Operations eleven to fifteen years. In the “Sensory- Motor” stage you learn to coordinate all sensory experiences (sights, sounds, etc.) with their motor behaviors. At this stage of development children learn about and start to understand the world around them by doing things like sucking, grasping, and crawling. In the Preoperational stage you’ll develop memory and imagination. They are