Jean Piaget’S Stages. Gloria Martinez . Antelope Valley

Jean Piaget’s Stages Gloria Martinez Antelope Valley College Jean Piaget Stages The short-written assignment I have chosen to do is Jean Piaget Stages of Cognitive Development. Jean Piaget is a psychologist who create the Stages of Cognitive Development by studying how children see the world as the grow up. What is Cognitive Development? Cognitive development is a study of field on children development. The four stages of development are from birth to adulthood. The four stages are called Sensorimotor stage (birth to 2), Preoperational (2 to 7 years old), Concrete operational (age 7 to 12), and Formal operational (12 to adulthood). The first stage of Jean Piaget Stage of development is the Sensorimotor stage.†¦show more content†¦The second stage is the Preoperational stage which is age two to seven years old. In this stage, they can think and their language becomes fully grown. Their memory and imagination becomes to develop. For example, a four-year-old will imagine to have superpower to save the world which he/she is using her imag ination. During the early stages of Preoperational children are still seeing things only from their own viewpoint which Piaget refer to as egocentric. An example of egocentric is that my sister loves strawberry ice-cream so she thinks that her friend loves strawberry ice cream but what my sister doesn’t realize is that she only seeing her viewpoint on strawberry ice cream and not seeing her friend viewpoint on strawberry ice cream. When the child has reach his/her seventh birthday their â€Å"thinking becomes more logical, flexible, and more organized than it was during the preschool years† according to Who I am in the Lives of Children. (203) Which means that the child is ready to go to the next stage which is concrete operational stage. The three stage is the Concrete operational stage which is ages seven to twelve years old. In the stage children create an understanding on mental operations, but still have trouble with abstract ideas. Children begin to grow out of e gocentric and start to see other’s viewpoint. An example of that is that Timmy viewpoint on reading is that he think reading is boring but Sammy viewpoint on