This week we were task with reading an article detailing Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development. A quick summary of this theory is as follows, Piaget believed that children move through four stages of mental development. He focuses on not only the acquisition of knowledge, but the understanding of the nature of intelligence. Piaget’s four stages are:
Sensorimotor stage with the assigned the range of birth to 2 years
Preoperational stage with the assigned range of 2 to 7
Concrete operational stage with the assigned range os 7 to 11
Formal operational stage with the assigned range of 12 and up
With in range Piaget identified several hallmarks within each one. Before getting into those, I would like to BRIEFLY mention the idea of schemas,
Sensorimotor stage with the assigned the range of birth to 2 years
Preoperational stage with the assigned range of 2 to 7
Concrete operational stage with the assigned range os 7 to 11
Formal operational stage with the assigned range of 12 and up
With in range Piaget identified several hallmarks within each one. Before getting into those, I would like to BRIEFLY mention the idea of schemas,