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Jean Piaget Stages Of Development

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There have been many people to contribute to the psychology, one being Jean Piaget. Piaget attended college in the town he was born in, Neuchatel, Switzerland where he received a doctorate in biology at the age of 22. He then became very interested in psychology and being to research and study this subject. Piaget and Freud, another developmental stage theorist, had similar beliefs when it came to psychology and how people developed. However, Piaget was a cognitive theorist and his focus was mainly on children and how they obtain their knowledge and think. That in which brought him the believe that children progressed through four main stages, sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational. These stages did correspond …show more content…

Typically, when I child was in the sensorimotor stage they were between birth and two years of age. The sensorimotor stage is the first stage of Piaget’s development, and was when a child used their senses to construct an understanding of the world and the things in it (put in citation from book). Although I am not fully aware of what I was doing when in the sensorimotor stage, but by seeing children grow today gives me an understanding of what I may have done. For example, they would taste everything as if it was something to eat I am pretty sure that every child has done this because at that age children do not know right from wrong and they are just exploring the world with their …show more content…

During this stage the child, begin to go beyond the sensorimotor stage. They start you use words and images to represent the things that represented the world. Piaget believe that many preschoolers still lacked the ability to performs “operations”; which are internalized mental actions that allow children to do mentally what they previously could only do physically (). I can recall a few things that I may have done between these ages when I entered this stage. At the age of four I can remember being in pre-kindergarten playing games in which we would take on roles in which we were not. Such as acting as though we were teacher, parents, and doctors. I also can remember acting as characters that my siblings and I would see on television; our favorite had to be the Power Rangers. Not only did we take on roles of others but we also would mix water and mud and act as if it was food, but we did not really eat it. Piaget’s preoperational stage is very relatable and I know for sure that I have reached that stage in my

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