Piaget’s stages of development include sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational. While there is some criticism of them, they may help characterize child development.

Jean Piaget (1896-1980) always considered himself a natural scientist, not a psychologist. As a boy he quickly gave up play and pretend to take refuge in "work" -- exploring internal combustion ...

By cranking up the difficulty on the test task, researchers found that children are capable of finding systematic solutions ...

The developmental psychologist and genetic epistemologist, Jean Piaget, investigated the cognitive development of children. He identified four stages from the sensorimotor period, culminating at 2 ...

Editor’s note: This is the fifth in a series of articles to help you explore student abilities, and how critical thinking is taught and learned, to better enable you to help your students thrive in ...

Human Development, Vol. 36, No. 2 (1993), pp. 61-81 (21 pages) In this article we examine the theories of Vygotsky, Piaget, and Bandura as they deal with the relation between the social world and ...