The Four Stages Of Cognitive Development
First of all, to have a better understanding of child development one should recognize that schema is the basic building block of intelligent …show more content…
Every child goes through each stage in the same order - no stage can be missed out. McLeod points out, Piaget did not claim that every child must go through every stage at a certain age because there are some individuals who may never attain the later stages, even though each stage has an indication of age that each child should reach on average. In each stage, the average children face the same challenge by going through the same stage. For instance, in the sensorimotor stage, children (birth to age 2) all explore the world by moving and