CATEGORIES OF LEARNERS ACCORDING TO STAGES OF

DEVELOPMENT

Jean Piaget believed that children are actively constructing their

understanding of the world as they grow. As their bodies grow, their minds
grow as well. He thought that this happened generally in different stages.

Development of both physical and mental traits continues gradually until these
traits reach their maximum growth. It goes on continuously throughout life.
Children did not skip stages but pass through each one. It is an invariant
sequence, which means that a person cannot skip stages or reorder them.

The first stage is the Sensorimotor Stage. In this stage, children experience
the world through senses and movement. He said that children gather
information about their world through sight, smell, taste, touch, and hearing.
They exhibit a variety of different reflexes. As they discover how to use their
senses, they also discover to move their body around. And this helps them
explore the world and learn what they're capable of.

The next stage is the Preoperational Stage. The operational part just means
mental operation, like imagining things or mentally reversing actions, things
like that.

1. Egocentrism in early childhood refers to the tendency of young children to think that

everyone sees things in the same way as they d0. .They are enable to see a
situation from another person's point of view.

Use symbols to represents objects.

2.

Draw conclusions from obvious facts they see.

3. For example, they might draw pictures of their families and assign
defining characteristics in the pictures to those family members.

They are headstrong and negativistics.,

favorite word is "NO".
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Active, mobile. and curious

5.

Rigid, repetitive, ritualistic, and

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stereotyped.
Have poor sense of time.
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The next stage is the Perceptual Intuitive Thought. This involves both
assimilation and accommodation, which results in changes in their
conceptions or thoughts. Their thinking is influenced by:

 Centration. Meaning, they focus all their attention on one characteristic or

dimension of a situation while disregarding all others

 Nontransformation, which means that they’re unable to differentiate

change from one to another, as their only focus is the present events.

 Irreversibility. It means that a child falsely believes that actions cannot be

reversed or undone.

 Reasoning. A child’s ability to think through problems and apply strategies

for solving them based on what that see or hear.

The next stage is the Concrete Operations Stage. Children begin think
logically about concrete results. They become better at classifying objects.
Inductive logic is a component of this stage of development. Children are able
so solve concrete hands-on problems in a logical manner. They also
understand the idea of reversing. They become less egocentric and begin to
understand someone else’s point of view exists.

The last stage is the Formal Operational Stage. This stage lasts from about
12 years and up. In this stage, children understand the abstract and deductive
reasoning. They also become more of a scientific thinker. They're able to take
their logic and apply it to problem-solving situations. They begin to develop
their own sense of identity, they begin to think who they are, what's their place
in this world.

bbChildren don't always develop these abilities within certain age brackets,
but they do tend to progress in a predictable fashion. But thanks to Piaget,
now we know that children are more than just a miniature adults.