Piaget's Stages Of Child Development

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The development of a child is incredible. For any parent, it is extraordinary to see their child from a tiny infant to a grown adult. The steps and stages of their growth is heartwarming and as every year goes by parents try all the possible ways to benefit and support their children. Though, in general, people stages of the child’s development. Jean Piaget is early researcher who studied infants and children (even his own three children). He developed a theory from birth to adulthood. Piaget’s Theory gives a clear and fact worthy evidence of each step of a child’s life.
The first of Piaget’s stages is the sensorimotor stage. This stage is involves infants from birth to age 2. This is when infants learn about the world around them. When infants
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This is the stage when you develop languages and concepts. Children are able to explore and enjoy their surroundings. Children at this age (2-7), love to pretend and make-believe play this is possible because they can understand through symbolic thinking. Though, during this stage, children tend to believe everything that they see. For example, if they see something on television or in a book, this causes them to think that it’s true. Some of the limitations for children are egocentrism, centration and conservation. Egocentrism is when children are unable to see things in everyone else's eyes but their owns. Centration is when only focusing on one object rather than taking in consideration of other things. According to Ciccarelli (2015), concentration means, “The ability to understand that altering the appearance of something does not change its amount (as in the coin example), it’s volume, or its mass” (p.322). Lastly, Irreversibility is a feature of preoperational thinking. This stage is about children thinking freely and starting to make mental …show more content…
During this stage (ages 12 to adulthood), the individual will demonstrate the ability to critically analyze situations, taking into consideration reasoning and argument. During this stage, the individual will demonstrate the ability to critically analyze situations, taking into consideration reasoning and argument. Also, individuals in this stage are able to think in more abstract terms. Actually, Sutherland states an interesting fact about formal operations when growing into adulthood (1992), “Piaget did not believe that everyone would necessarily reach formal operations, and studies show that only about half of all adults in the United States reach this stage”(p. 324). Additionally, during the formal operation stage of cognitive development, one will begin to draw conclusions based on forming a hypothesis about or testing of situations. Piaget’s theory on four stages of cognitive development really summarize the growth of an infant to an adult. These stages summarize and explain deeply how a child to an adult changes and what they experience. Also, the importance to have a strong bond and communication (for parents) when their child is an infant. The stages show how each stage affects the next. Piaget’s theory clearly shows how children grow up and what happens to that individual in each