Piaget's Stage of Cognitive Development

Question 1

birth to 2 years; infants understand the world and think using only their senses and motor skills, by watching, listening, touching, and tasting

Answer 1

sensorimotor

Question 2

2 to 6 years; preschoolers explore the world using their own thoughts as guides and develop the language skills to communicate their thoughts to others; despite these advances, their thinking is characterized by several errors in logic

Answer 2

preoperations

Question 3

7 to 11 years; school-aged children become able to solve everyday logical problems; their thinking is not yet fully mature because they are able to apply their thinking only to problems that are tangible and tied to specific substances

Answer 3

concrete operations

Question 4

12 years to adulthood; adolescents and adults can reason logically and abstractly about possibilities, imagined instances and events, and hypothetical concepts

Answer 4

formal operations