Stages
Stage 1: (Sensorimotor Stage)
Stage 2: (Preoperational Stage)
Stage 3: (Concrete Operational)
Stage 4: (Formal Operational)
Behavior Concept
if you place a toy under a Object Permanence
blanket, the child knows it is
there and can actively seek it
the child begins to represent the Symbolic Function
world symbolically like solving
puzzles, reading, writing,
imagination and intuition
the child learns rules such as Decentering, Reversibility,
conversations and discourses Conversation and Seriation
with other people in their
environment
The adolescent can transcend Hypothetical Reasoning,
the concrete situation and think Analogical Reasoning and
about the future Deductive Reasoning