Piaget S Cognitive Stages Of Development. The theory outlines four distinct stages from birth through adolescence focusing on how children acquire knowledge reasoning language morals and memory. Piaget believed that there is a connection between cognitive and moral development.
Piaget believed that development occurred in stages that are based on the child s age and maturity level. Piaget 1936 was the first psychologist to make a systematic study of cognitive development. The process underlying piaget s stages of cognitive development.
Piaget believed that there is a connection between cognitive and moral development.
In piaget s view early cognitive development involves processes based upon actions and later progresses to changes in mental operations. In piaget s view early cognitive development involves processes based upon actions and later progresses to changes in mental operations. His contributions include a stage theory of child cognitive development detailed observational studies of cognition in children and a series of simple but ingenious tests to reveal different cognitive abilities. In this stage a child develops the ability to utilize abstract thinking.