Luis Joaquin

2018-30-3-0042

Piaget’s Stages

In the sensorimotor stage, occurring from birth to age 2, the child is concerned with
gaining motor control and learning about physical objects.

Example: a baby might be startled by a clapping sound or loud thud on the floor and make
a short jolting body movement. The baby will demonstrate these reflexes as he or she
continues to grow for the first six weeks of life.  Grapping and also imitation are part of the
sensory motor stage, babies/Toddler tend to do this actions.

In the preoperational stage, from ages 2 to 7, the child is preoccupied with verbal skills.
At this point the child can name objects and reason intuitively. In the concrete operational
stage, from ages 7 to 12, the child begins to deal with abstract concepts such as numbers
and relationships.

Example:  a child is able to use an object to represent something else, such as pretending
a broom is a horse.

The concrete operational stage typically develops between the ages of 7-11 years.
Intellectual development in this stage is demonstrated through the use of logical and
systematic manipulation of symbols, which are related to concrete objects

Example: a child may unconsciously follow the rule: “If nothing is added or taken away,
then the amount of something stays the same." This simple principle helps children to
understand certain arithmetic tasks, such as in adding or subtracting zero from a number.

Finally, in the formal operational stage, ages 12 and up the child begins to reason
logically and systematically.

Example: An example of the distinction between concrete and formal operational stages is
the answer to the question “If Kelly is taller than Ali and Ali is taller than Jo, who is-
tallest?”  This is an example of inferential reasoning, which is the ability to think about
things which the child has not actually experienced and to draw conclusions from its
thinking.