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’s theory of cognitive development has been a central framework for understanding how children grow and learn. His model describes development through four sequential stages: sensorimotor, ...

Piaget's theory of the construction of the object in infancy is examined critically. It is found that his notion of 'perceptual tableaux', used to describe the experience of the young infant, is ...

In its emphasis on suprahistorical totalities, structuralism in developmental psychology has failed to acknowledge the sociohistorical nature of cognition. In this it converges with, and serves the ...

WHEELING, W.Va., -- A Wheeling Jesuit University psychology class recently invited six children to answer a variety of questions to test how they think. The answers obtained verified that children ...