Piaget’s stages of development describe how children learn as they grow up. There are four distinct stages: sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational. Jean Piaget was ...

It should be understood that I have emphasized the importance of Piaget’s cognitive developmental stages in a child’s intellectual progression for one simple reason: its four-stage progress and its ...

Historically, the study of cognition has focused mainly on adults. With the arrival of constructivist theoreticians such as Jean Piaget, cognitive developmental theory became more visible in ...

At one time or another, we’ve all heard “experts” assert that children have different learning styles. Some children, for instance, may be visual learners, while others best absorb information by ...

Cognitive psychology is the branch of psychology dedicated to studying how people think. The cognitive perspective in psychology focuses on how the interactions of thinking, emotion, creativity, and ...