Piaget S Periods Of Cognitive Development. In the period of formal operations students are at the peak level of development of cognitive structures where students are able to think logically for all kinds of hypothetical problems verbal. We explain each of the four stages and explore strategies based on piaget s theory for.
The child displays five key behaviors during this period. He disagreed with the idea that intelligence was a fixed trait and regarded cognitive development as a process which occurs due to biological maturation and interaction with the environment. Children not only learn how to perform physical actions such as crawling and walking.
They also learn a great deal about language from the people with whom they interact.
Birth through ages 18 24 months. Piaget s theory of cognitive development had a significant impact on how people understand childhood development today. In the 1960s and 1970s as freudian and jungian psychology were rapidly being replaced by more empirical methods of studying human behavior a swiss philosopher and psychologist named jean piaget 1896 1980 stepped in to offer a new theory of cognitive development. In this period children learn how to perform physical actions such as crawling and walking and children learn a great deal about language from the people they interact with.