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Piagets 4 stages

Stage 1- Sensori-motor stage

The

child is only able to experience the world through their senses. They also use

body movements. This starts with reflexes that they are born with. One major

development during this stage is object

permanence.

Stage 2- Pre-Operational stage

During

this stage the child starts to use symbols, signs, or objects to represent

things. This is an example of symbolic

thinking. When something ‘stands for’ something else. For example, a banana

as a phone. Also during this stage they show ego centrism, de centration and animism.

Stage 3- concrete operational

Main

new cognitive skill is conservation,

this is the knowledge that properties of objects are the same (are conserved)

even if the objects appear to change.

Stage 4- Formal Operational

By

adolescence, children develop hypothetical

thinking; they can solve and think about sophisticated abstract problems.

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