JEAN PIAGET STAGES
OF DEVELOPMENT
Isabella Lorenzo
P.6
Sensorimotor (Birth to 2 years old)
■ The sensorimotor stage is the first stage of
your child's life, according to Jean Piaget's
theory of child development. It begins at birth
and lasts through age 2. During this period,
your little one learns about the world by
using their senses to interact with their
surroundings.
Preoperational (2-7
years old)
■ During this stage, children build on object
permanence and continue to develop
abstract mental processes. This means they
can think about things beyond the physical
world, such as things that happened in the
past.
Concrete Operations (7-12 years old)
■ The concrete-operational stage depicts an important
step in the cognitive development of children (Piaget,
1947). According to Piaget, thinking in this stage is
characterized by logical operations, such as
conservation, reversibility or classification, allowing
logical reasoning.
Formal Operational
Stage (12 Adulthood)
■
The formal operational stage is characterized
by the ability to formulate hypotheses and
systematically test them to arrive at an
answer to a problem. The individual in the
formal stage is also able to think abstractly
and to understand the form or structure of a
mathematical problem.