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Why? What is that? These are just merely a few examples of a kid’s favorite questions to ask as they mature and begin to understand more about the world surrounding them. They are curious about this new, exciting world and eager to learn about it. Their method of learning is by asking those questions and hearing the answers, allowing them to gain knowledge about their world. This is the basis of Jean Piaget’s stage development theory, a theory focused on the cognitive development ranging from infants all the way through to adulthood. Jean Piaget did a massive amount of research and studies on cognitive development, and concluded that there are four stages every human must progress through in order to grow cognitively. The four stages are the …show more content…

For example, the three-year-old I babysat loves dinosaurs and watching dinosaur movies. Well, for Halloween his aunt got an inflatable dinosaur costume to wear. We thought he would love it, right? Wrong, he hated it and cried when he saw it. Even after seeing his aunt put the costume on and watching it inflate, he still got upset over it, but was fine seeing her get into the costume. What changed to make him have such a reaction? Well, think back to the idea of centration, once he saw the dinosaur blow up, he focused on that one obvious aspect of the object and believed it was a real dinosaur. He ignored the fact that he saw his aunt getting into the costume. This is obviously a sign of the limitation of a toddler’s thinking and cognitive ability at this age. In the preoperational stage, toddlers do not understand that one entity cannot change to another just because of a change in the physical aspect of it. Children in this stage must learn this and in doing so, also grow their cognitive …show more content…

By overcoming their limitations, children cultivate their cognitive ability and pave the way for them to begin thinking in more abstract and formal ways. You can look at the preoperational stage as being a basis or foundation for their cognitive development all the way through to their adult years. That is why it is important for parents to encourage and support their children at this trying time, even when they are asking the same question over and over, why? By helping children to understand the world around them, you are also allowing them to reason and make their own

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Piaget’s theory of cognitive development Piaget asserts, children are born with inherited scripts, called schema, these schema are building blocks for cognitive development. As a child grows, he acquires more of these building blocks; moreover, these building blocks become more complex as the child progresses through different stages in development (Huitt, Hummel 2003). Piaget’s 4 stages of cognitive development are as follows. First, The sensorimotor stage where an infant has rudimentary motor skills, and can eventually

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Cognitive abilities enable children to process the sensory information that they collect from the environment. According to Wood, Smith and Grossniklaus (2012), Piaget defined cognitive development as the progressive reorganization of the mental processes that results in biological experience and maturation. As numerous researchers have explained, children normally undergo many changes from birth to adolescents, most of them being growth related. According to Cook (2005), the changes in thinking is what researchers call cognitive development. In toddlers, cognitive development is observed through the early use of tools and objects, the child’s behavior when objects are moved in front of them and their understanding when objects and when people are in their environment.

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Piaget developed a stage theory of intellectual development that included four distinct stages: the sensorimotor stage, from birth to age 2; the preoperational stage, from age 2 to about age 7; the concrete operational stage, from age 7 to 11; and the formal operational stage, which begins in adolescence and spans into adulthood. He believed that there were four necessary ingredients for cognitive development which included: “maturation of the nervous system, experiences gained through interaction with physical world, social environment, and child’s active participation in adapting to environment & constructing knowledge from experience.” (Sullivan, 2014, Slide 3) The sensorimotor stage occurs between birth and age 2. Infants and toddlers acquire knowledge through sensory experiences and handling objects.

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The second stage is between age of 2 to 6 years old, children form ideas with words and images, which is tend to be over generalizing. Developmental phenomena of this stage include pretending play, egocentrism and language development. And then the third stage from 7 to 11 years old, children think logically about concrete events and understand similar events. In this period, abilities of conversation and mathematical transformation get to be developed. Last stage, 12

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