B. F. Skinner's Four Stages Of Cognitive Development

Every one raises children differently some have different religious beliefs that reflect on how the children are raised. Some will take it offensive if another person tells them how to care for their child. There have been instances where women are getting in physical altercations because someone told them how care for their child. Cognitive development is one of the main categories studied by theorists and is still a leading area of study among people today. Jean Piaget, Burrhus Skinner (B.F. Skinner), Erik Erikson, and Lev Vygotsky are four of the leading psychologists that studied cognitive development. It is important that we review and understand these theories. If we can understand each theorist individually we can apply all the information, and have a good understanding of how children grow, learn, and change. This is an extremely important thing to understand because it allows us to properly have knowledge of how the child developed. Some theories seem to be more accurate than others, most theories are still considered to hold some fact of measure of truth. The experiences that take place while an infant or a young
Piaget describes stages of cognitive development. Stages that occur in succession always in the same order from the reflexive movements of very young infants to the trial and error approach of young children. According to his theory, he claims that the child passes through four unique stages of development; Sensorimotor stage 0- 2 years, pre-operational stage 2- 7years, concrete operational period (7-11 years), and formal operations (11-15) years. According to Piaget, reasoning in kids deepens as they continue to grow. They begin to understand who the things around them work and they are learning new things each day. Their engagement in the social and physical world improves development and all other changes that occur via assimilation and accommodation (Kenpro,