Piaget's Stages

“Learning is used in two ways: sometimes in a broad sense, almost synonymous with development, and other times in a much narrower sense” (Dulberg, 510). As children begin to develop, based on Piaget’s theory we grow in different stages that help us convert into the person we are today. As an infant estimated to the age of two, the first stage that we are approached to is the sensorimotor stage. It is when we begin to create our self, figuring out who we can trust, and what we like and dislike as a whole. We become these curious creatures that seeks love and support and find that place where we fit in. They become their own scientists because they begin to wonder how the world works and begin experimenting and get a result, if it is a positive …show more content…
While they are expanding their minds they begin to open up and view the world around them and try to put it into a situation that they have never been through. It is important for us to be able to understand the mind of a child, since they are at the critical stages that will affect them as an adult. Around the age of four the child heads to the next stage that they move into is the Preoperational stage, the stage that is filled with egocentrism. Children are building symbols for their everyday life. Since children at this age can begin to obtain important information such as, knowing their name, family, age, etc. The things that is tricky is their lack of being able to reverse their information as they believe that everyone understands their minds. When a child is asked how many siblings they have they can correctly answer the amount. But if you ask him how many siblings their brother has they will not include themselves because they are their own person. It is harder for them to disconnect themselves into another …show more content…
My nine month niece only speaks gibberish so relies heavily on body movement, the one year old can speak some words, which shows that he still works with actions and the three year old can speak perfectly, so he speaks on his actions. As I watched them play the three year old began to use his fingers and make gun noises and he pretended to “shoot” his younger brother. When the one year old was shot, he stared at his brother trying to analyze what had just happened and then instantly the one year old stuck out his little finger, pointed back at him and said “phew”. They kept on playing around and then as the nine month was watching them, she too tried to make the same sound effects when the “gun” was pointed to her. By telling this little image it proves that children are constantly watching one another to figure out what is acceptable in the culture they are growing up in, based on the figuratives that they heavily rely