Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development

Question 1

Sensorimotor (Birth-2 years)

Answer 1

With increased mobility and awareness and the development of a sense of self as separate from the external environment, the concept of object permanence emerges as the ability to form mental images evolves

Question 2

Preoperational (2- 6 years)

Answer 2

Learning to express self with language, developing an understanding of symbolic gestures, achieving object permanence

Question 3

Concrete operations (6-12 years)

Answer 3

Learning to apply logic to thinking, developing an understanding of reversibility and spatiality, learning to differentiate and classify, socializing and applying rules

Question 4

Formal operations (12-15 years and up)

Answer 4

Learning to think and reason in abstract terms, making and testing hypotheses, expanding and refining logical thinking and reasoning, achieving cognitive maturity