Piaget's Four Stages Of Child Development

In the 1920's Jean Piaget realized that children have a different way of thinking than adults do. After realizing this he decided to invest his time into trying to figure out why. He eventually came up with the 4 stages of child development that every single child goes through. The stages go from when an infant is born until it is around 11 years old. Every child is in the sensorimotor stage until they get to be around 2 years old. During this stage infants become area of their senses like touch and sight. They then transfer into the preoperational stage until they are about 7 years old. This is the time when children start to be vocal and use words. They then go into the concrete operational stage where they are finally starting to get a grasp of logic thinking but still do not fully understand it. Once the child hits adolescence they have a full grasp of logic thinking and have the thinking mind set of a adult unlike when …show more content…
For one it has been shown that all of Piaget's research was done on higher economic class children. Since he did not do his research on children with different economic backgrounds he can not for sure say all children develop this certain way. Children also tend to mature at different ages depending on there environment and what they are accustomed to. Lastly, children often prove to be smarter than what we perceive them to be. So it is hard to say that they can not logically understand things until they are close to a certain age. All these are key points in the beginning of Kendra Cherry's article "Support and Criticism of Piaget's Stage Theory" https://www.verywell.com/support-and-criticism-of-piagets-stage-theory-2795460

After doing my research I personally believe Piaget's theory make sense. Now while I do see some flaws I believe he has some key points in his stages and overall his theory on children's development is