Piaget's Concrete Operations Stage: Personal Narrative Analysis

While my social skills lacked during middle childhood, my cognition was sharp. When reflection on Piaget’s Concrete Operations Stage, I was aware of relationship roles. When I was 10, my older cousin became pregnant. I had just been educated about sex, so I was aware of how it happened. I was unsure of why it happened since my cousin was not married. My mother then explained that any female can have children and sex isn’t always strictly limited to marriage. Shortly after learning sex happens outside of marriage. I discovered my father was having an affair and my mother did not know. I told my mother what I saw when coming home from school one afternoon due to an early dismissal that my father clearly forgot about. My father and I never had a close relationship after knowing I told my mom about the affair, he quickly packed his stuff and left without speaking to me since then.

“preconventional morality, roughly corresponding to Piaget’s heteronomous level, in which what is right is what avoids punishment, what conforms to the dictates of authority, or what serves one’s personal interests (Broderick & Blewitt, 2015, p. 278). Although it seems today that these experiences were small events in my life. During this time, I was as old as I have ever been and lacked the ability to step away and see the large picture of things. According to Vygotsky they were critical to my overall development because they emphasized independent development through social interactions contribution to overall cognitive development (Broderick & Blewitt, 2015, p.