Evaluating Jean Piaget's Theory Of Cognitive Development

n this next section about Ruby, to evaluate her development, we will be using Jean Piaget’s views and theory of cognitive development. This development can be evaluated by a concept of his theory, “Piaget believed that children go through 4 universal stages of cognitive development. A child's cognitive development is about a child constructing a mental model of the world” (McLeod, 2015). To determine where Ruby’s ability is cognitively, we can use Piaget's stages of development. As a three year old girl, Ruby is in the Preoperational stage, which includes children aged between two to seven years of age. In this stage, the young children start formulating the ability to think about things symbolically. They have the ability to make one thing, word or an object, mean something else. In this stage their thinking is unsystematic, illogical and egocentric.
The first instance is the puzzles her father gives her. He gave her two puzzles to see how she would respond, in both puzzles she was unable to think logically to solve the puzzles, this is expected in the learning stage. Although, when she is at preschool she goes to the big kid section despite being younger, as she finds the little kid puzzles too easy, which shows some signs of logic as she wants to improve. There is also some logic shown when she tidys up after herself after eating and watering the preschool gardens. We can see some of the unsystematic thinking that comes with her development stage, shown when she thinks about how her brother doesn't affect her routines and is getting used to him, despite being younger. This is also egocentric, another part of the stage she is in, where she thinks of them as brother and sister as something she has to get used to and how it affects her and her own