Exploring Piagetian Cognitive Development Stages

The Piagetian Cognitive stages is a process were a series of developmental stages takes place. Each stage is characterized by the development of new abilities or, more precisely, each stage is consisting of a more advanced level of adaptation. (Lefrancois, 2006 page243). The stages to the Piagetian Cognitive are Sensorimotor which is birth to 2 years old, Preoperational which is 2 years old until 7 years old, Preconceptual stage is 2 years old until 4 years old, and Intuitive 4 years old until 7 years old. Then we have Concrete operation to 7 years old until 12 years old, and Formal operation 12 years old and up. The Sensorimotor development is the birth to 2 years old. During this time we see objects are not being sensed, they are no realization

This is the stage of here and now for the new born. Preoperational thinking is the years from 2 years old until 7 years old. This is where a Child increases their understanding of the world, but the child still has shortcomings this stage is divided in two smaller stages Preconceptual and Intuitive. The Preconceptual stage is the time period from 2 years old and 4 years old. This is the time period where a child inability to understand all the properties of classes. This where all males are called daddy and all women ae called mommy. The world is viewed has a simple place during this stage. The Intuitive stage of thinking is from 4 years old until 7 years old. The child by now has a more complex understanding of concepts, and have largely stopped reasoning transductively. A little more logical in thinking. The child is able to learn more and take in more things. We could see the form of some kind of relationships start. Concrete Operant, 7 years old until 12 years old. This is when a child forms a prelogical, egocentric, perception dominated kind of thinking to a more rule- regulated thinking. This is where we start to see the understanding of numbers and development of

My student is 16 years old this put him into the formal concrete stage in Piagetian theory. The stage states that you completely generality of thought and have propositional thinking. You have the ability to deal with the hypothetical development of a strong idealism. . (Lefrancois, 2006 page255). With my experiments I was able to see my student idealism when I asked him to create his own experiment base off his answer he give me. I asked him to prove how girls are more aggressive than boys, and I asked my student to prove how some teenage girls like video games. He was able to reconstruct his own experiment off my experiment. I could see genetic epistemology while he was answering the question, the referring to his knowledge grew as he was trying to answer. His social interaction skills were very high, because his answers were so well thought up and his ideas were displayed. His ideas on how to prove his answer all had other people in it. For example he stated how he was going to separate the schools between all boys and all girls and see what happens. That experiment had people in it. I got an understanding of maturation after my experiments I since how my student think and learn from