Jean Piaget

Jean Piaget

· He was famous for working out a universal sequence of stages of

cognitive development

· Notable for his idea that children (and adults) are continually

generating theories about the external world

· He set out stages for when certain new aspects of generating

theories;

1. Sensorimotor stage: which occurs from birth to age two (Children

experience through their senses)

2. Preoperational stage: which occurs from ages two to seven (motor

skills are acquired)

3. Concrete operational stage: which occurs from ages seven to

eleven (children think logically about concrete events)

4. Formal Operational stage: which occurs after age eleven (abstract

reasoning is developed here).

Sensorimotor stage

· The child in this stage explores the world with their senses, rather

than through mental operations

· This stage marks the development of essential spatial abilities and

understanding of the world in six sub stages. Reflexe...