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Stage 4: Formal Operational ( Age 12 and up)

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Stage 4: Formal Operational ( Age 12 and up)

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The final stage of Piaget's theory involves an increase in logic, the ability to use deductive reasoning, and an understanding of abstract ideas

The ability to thinking about abstract ideas and situations is the key hallmark of the formal operational stage of cognitive development

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Stage 3: Concrete operational stage ( Age 7 to 11)

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Stage 3: Concrete operational stage ( Age 7 to 11)

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While children are still very concrete and literal in their thinking at this point in development, they become much more adept at using logic.

While thinking becomes much more logical during the concrete operational state, it can also be very rigid. Kids at this point in development tend to struggle with abstract and hypothetical concepts.

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The foundations of language development may have been laid during the previous stage, but it is the emergence of language that is one of the major milesotnes of the preoperational stage of development.

At this stage, kids learn through pretend play but still struggle with logic and taking the point of view of other people. They also often struggle with understanding the idea of constancy.

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Stage 1: Sensorimotor (Birth to 2 years old)

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Stage 1: Sensorimotor (Birth to 2 years old)

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New babies are not sure what happens to objects when they leave there sight

Durning the first year of life they will learn an important concept (object permanence); that everything has a life of its own even if its out of sight

The cognitive development that occurs during this period takes place over a relatively short period of time and involves a great deal of growth