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.

Although there is no general theory of cognitive development, the most historically influential theory was developed by Jean Piaget, a Swiss Psychologist (1896-1980). His theory provided many central ...

Jean Piaget (1896-1980) always considered himself a natural scientist, not a psychologist. As a boy he quickly gave up play and pretend to take refuge in "work" -- exploring internal combustion ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Piaget introduced a category-theoretic formulation of cognitive development in the late 1960s and extended it during the 1970s. The new theory ...

Your baby’s big enough to say “More!” when they want more cereal. They’re even able to follow simple instructions and throw their used napkin in the garbage. Yup, they’ve moved onto a new stage of ...

Vol. 89, No. 6, SPECIAL SECTION: Meta-analysis and Individual Participant Data Synthesis in Child Development (NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2018), pp. 2288-2302 (15 pages) In 1997, I argued that with the loss of ...

WHEELING, W.Va., -- A Wheeling Jesuit University psychology class recently invited six children to answer a variety of questions to test how they think. The answers obtained verified that children ...

SALINAS >> Frustrated with her experience in the classroom, teacher Jane Meade-Roberts enrolled in a doctoral program under the tutelage of Constance Kamii at the University of Illinois at Chicago.