Piaget’s stages of development include sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational. While there is some criticism of them, they may help characterize child development.

What Are the Piaget Stages of Development? Piaget's stages of development are part of a theory about the phases of normal intellectual development from infancy through adulthood, including thought, ...

A future historian of the cognitive sciences—that recently formed amalgam of disciplines which probes the operations of the human mind—might select any of a number of episodes as marking the birth of ...

IT is late afternoon, but the four-year-old insists: “It can’t be. I haven’t had my nap.” Such is the mind of the child, by most indications illogical and full of nonsense. Not so, says Jean Piaget, a ...

Jean Piaget’s theory of cognitive development has been a central framework for understanding how children grow and learn. His model describes development through four sequential stages: sensorimotor, ...

Ever feel like your baby has their hands on everything? Or that everything ends up in their mouth — including, dare we say it, the most unappetizing things imaginable? Guess what — this is exactly ...

Claudia Hammond revisits Jean Piaget's Swiss Mountain experiment to ask whether the conclusions concerning young children's essential egocentrism are accurate. Show more We have to thank the Swiss ...