Jean Piaget's Stages Of Child Development

Jean Piaget was a Swiss psychologist who was interested in child development. He came up with the famous theory of the Cognitive Stages in children through adulthood. The stages include sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational. The different stages apply to different age groups. For example, the first stage, sensorimotor, applies to children at birth through 2 years of age, so this would not apply to the concrete operational kids whose age level includes kids who are roughly 7-12 years old. He uses these stages to show how the kids grow and mature.
Jean Piaget was born and raised in Neuchatel, Switzerland. He was an only child that looked up to his father tremendously. His father, Frederic Piaget, spent a
Children only two to seven years experience this. The kids develop an imagination where systems allow them to describe people, events, and feelings. This is typically the stage where little boys become more aggressive to their fathers as they have an attachment to their mother and just want to protect them. They are more passionate and learn to care about the little things to where they think that if one thing goes wrong, the world might end. Some techniques they develop during this stage is language and symbolic thinking, and egocentric thinking which is when one thinks the world operates from his or her own perspective. It is believed that this is where children begin to hope for crazy, unrealistic things and develop false hope, also known as an imagination that Piaget very well believed in while other philosophers did not get as well. The third stage is concrete operational. This is where the children think in a more logical manner and begin to overcome some of the egocentrism characteristics of the preoperational period. Ages seven to twelve years are the years that is believed to apply the most. Some developments that will come to are conservation and mastery of concept of