Piaget: The Appropriate Stage Of Cognitive Development

I handed my infant niece, Harper, a set of keys, thinking she would shake them and giggle at the noise they made. I thought this because in Piaget’s developmental stage, sensorimotor, it states that infants learn from experimenting and their main focus is what is happening in that very moment. My prediction was correct. As soon as I held the keys in front of her she began to reach for them. Then once I handed the keys to her, she rattled them making a clanging noise.

A well-intentioned, but meddling, relative comes to visit the weekend before your child's first birthday, in April. She cautions you that you must be spoiling the child, because he hides behind your leg and clings to you when she tries to give him a hug, and he did not do this when she visited at New Year's. How will you explain what is happening with your child? The situation can be described as Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive of Development, where the the little boy might be going through stranger anxiety. To defend the little boy, the parent must explain that he is going through stranger anxiety, in which is a fear of unfamiliar people. He doesn’t know this aunt well enough to form a sense of comfortability to her. A great way to ease the issue is for the parent to interact with the aunt, so the toddler can see she is harmless.

Effectively, the stages of infant cognitive development can be viewed and explained simply. According to Piaget there are four stages of cognitive development that range from the ages of birth through adulthood. Today we will only focus on two of these stages as they pertain to the ages of birth through the ages of 24 months or two years old. The first stage is the sensorimotor stage which includes and defines the ages from birth to about 18 months of age. This stage is quickly described and defined by the infant only being aware of what’s immediately in front of them, and only interacting with those people, objects or sounds (http://www.webmd.com/children/piaget-stages-of-development Piaget Stages of Development. ©2005-2015 WebMD, LLC). Looking at Piaget’s studies even at the earliest moments of life an infant utilizes the power of their brains in the forms of basic awareness’s and communication attempts. The second

In Piaget's first stage of development, the sensorimotor period, which occurs from birth until the age of two, deals with infants discovering the world through their five senses; the infants learn also through applying their motor skills and polishing them. They can also only distinguish things that are present--which are able to be seen, touched, or heard--and ends when the infant can create mental representations in their minds of those objects.

The child I observed for the project was my five year old cousin. The activity I observed her doing is playing dress up. She likes to dress up as batgirl, wear capes, and dress up as Elsa from Frozen because they both have brown hair. This is a prime example Piaget’s preoperational state of cognitive development. This stage is described as when a child uses symbolic thinking, use of proper syntax and grammar to express full concepts. When she comes to our house she also enjoys riding her bike, coloring, playing games, and playing at the park. My mom helps her make homemade play doe; this allows her to learn how to make things. The combinations of those activities are good for intellectual, emotional, and physical growth.

The initial phase of Piaget’s model, Sensory Motor, arises from the birth of the child up to around two years old. Throughout this time the infant is trying to recognize his/her new setting. This understanding is restricted to the child’s according to Gregory (Date) “sensory perceptions and motor activities” (P. 112) Infants and toddlers explore the world and know the world exist around them. They look to adults to set boundaries as they orally explore the world by placing objects in their mouths. Mentally exploring as they grow older.

Adolescence is the transition between childhood and adulthood (Berk, 2014, p. 361). During adolescence, children and teenagers begin to form their identity, establishing who they are based on their values and goals (Berk, 2014, p. 361). Adolescence typically begins with puberty and is followed by changes in motor and cognitive development (Berk, 2014, p. 362). During adolescence, teenagers often experience Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development, Erikson’s Theory of Development, and Kohlberg’s 3 Levels of Moral Development. These theories and ideas have helped form the basis of normal adolescent development. Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development describes how the use of more advanced and abstract thinking occurs in a sequence for all children,

piagete stage of cognitive developments is stage during the early teen year , reasoning if often self focused. piagete is the theory which construct children understanding of the world while interacting with it.

There are four different stages in Piaget’s Stages of Development. The first stage of Piaget is oftenly within the age range of zero to two years and it is called the Sensorimotor Stage. This stage is the stage where children are learning more about what is around them and they learn about touches, tastes, smells, sounds, and what they see. They are also always moving and interested in everything around them. In this first stage babies also don’t know the permanence of objects and think that if they can’t see something or that it went missing that it disappeared. An example of this stage is: a baby is crawling and touching everything it sees and tries to put it in its mouth.

According to Piaget adolescent are in formal operational stage. The cognitive development in comparison to physical development is less visible. However, cognitive development greatly influences the way adolescent think about themselves, peers, relationship and the world around them. The adolescents in formal high school education enter into Piaget’s final stage of formal operations which results in the development of abstract thinking.

Between each milestone existed an adaptation phase in which the child is able to apply what they already know to what they will need to know for future stages. There are four stages of Piaget’s cognitive-developmental theory which consist of sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational. The sensorimotor stage occurs from birth to 2 years of age and is characterized by the infant beginning to explore the world and tying together sensory information with motor skills while acquiring an understanding of objects continuing to exist, even when not present (object permanence). In the preoperational stage, occurring between 2 and 7 years, the child begins to develop language skills through use of symbols such as words and images and views themselves as being the center of everything (egocentrism). Illogical thinking is still evident. In the concrete operational phase, lasting from 7 to 11 years, the child’s reasoning becomes increasingly more logical and he or she begins to understand the idea of conservation after change in

The first concept that I can relate to is Piaget’s stages of cognitive development. Jean Piaget came up with this concept about how a child’s brain develops throughout their life. There are four stages: sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational. The two stages I can specifically relate to are the sensorimotor and preoperational stages. I have a three year old cousin who I have babysat for since she was only a few months old. The first part of her life I observed her during the sensorimotor stage. This stage is from birth to two years old and the child experiences the world through their senses. During this stage she would love looking at brightly colored objects and she loved listening to music. She would often put things in her mouth as a way of trying to figure out what it was. I also noticed that she didn’t have object permanence because whenever I left the room she would cry thinking I wasn’t there anymore. Over the past year I have watched

Chapter five provides a basic explanation of the developmental prospective. This includes the different stages of developmental theories. Piaget generated the cognitive-developmental theory. Piaget’s theories included Sensorimotor, Preoperational, Concrete operational, and Formal operational. Ford and Lernal presented the Developmental systems theory. Freud theorized five psychosexual stages, these stages included oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital. Bronfrenbrenner presented the Ecological model. Erickson expanded his theories on the stages of Psychosocial development. Erickson’s has a model that consist of eight stages and is broken down by age. Erickson’s wife later added a ninth stage to his model.

Piaget describes Cognitive development as the development of thinking across the lifespan. He believes, that as children grow and their brains develop, and they move through multiple stages that are characterized by differences in their cognitive development.

Piaget believed that there is an “inborn plan for cognitive development but it is dependent on the child’s environment” (Boyd & Bee, 2012, p.138). “Piaget’s most central assumption was that the child is an active participant in the development of knowledge, constructing his own understanding” (Boyd & Bee, 2012, p.156). The two environmental factors that Piaget believed were crucial were social transmission and experience. Social transmission is the information that the child gets from other people. Experience, in Piaget’s perspective, means “the child’s own opportunities to act on the world and to observe the results of those actions.”