What Is Piaget's Theory Of Cognitive Development

The world is a big and interesting place with many different stimulents according all at once, from large objects, sounds, textures, colors, and everything else around us. A new born, or even a young child this is a exciting experance learning everything around them and trying to grasp what’s going on. Piaget’s theory of cognitive development is focused on children’s development in different schemes. The first of the schemes are called sensorimotor actions and the second are preoperational stage deal with infents and young children ranging from birth to ½ years. Which would be the meaning of an object a person example would be, when I was a child I loved to play with a toy truck and push mimicking a moving car on the road. Sensorimotor is the identify of their own body, time and space. A personal example would be putting toys in my mouth as a child, I would do this to understand the shape and texture. Next scheme in Piaget’s theory of
This stage is linked to sistuations of understanding changes in multipul things happen at once. Which would be understanding that the liquid pourd into the tall, thin glass is equal to the glass that was shorter and wider. Another personal expalme would be playing with play-do as a child, it came in a cyldiner jar but I understood I could take it out and shape it into different things but still know it can fit back into the jar. The final stage of Piaget’s theory of Cognitive development is called formal operational stage, at this stage sistatuions become more logical and the person uses reason and understanding of ideas that are obstract as well as able to problem solve with more then one solution. Formal operational stage starts roughly around 12 and goes into adulthood. A good example of this would be me not cleaning up my room and my mom yelling at me and then me not being able to have desert or go play with friends. I understand there are consequences for my