Child Development (by Jean Piaget)

Jean Piaget’s theory of child development explains how children’s thinking skills grow and change at different stages. He identified four key stages: sensorimotor (birth-2 years), where infants learn about the world through their senses and actions; preoperational (2-7 years), characterized by imaginative thinking but limited logic; concrete operational (7-11 years), marked by better understanding of logic and real-world relationships; and formal operational (12+ years), when abstract and strategic thinking develop. Piaget’s work emphasizes that children actively explore and construct their understanding of the world as they mature, progressing through these stages in a natural sequence.