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 Piaget has divided human cognitive development into **four stages**: sensorimotor,​ preoperational,​ concrete, and formal, as they are described below. Ages describing when which stage occurs are the average values. Piaget has divided human cognitive development into **four stages**: sensorimotor,​ preoperational,​ concrete, and formal, as they are described below. Ages describing when which stage occurs are the average values.
  
-  * **Sensorimotor stage** (birth to 2 years): In this stage cognitive system of an infant is limited to **motor reflexes**, but also some more complex procedures built on those reflexes. Infant interacts with the environment and **learns to understand the world**. Learning takes place through **absorbing into the existing schema** and accommodating when schema change is required.+  * **Sensorimotor stage** (birth to 2 years): In this stage cognitive system of an infant is limited to **motor reflexes**, but also some more complex procedures built on those reflexes. Infant interacts with the environment and **learns to understand the world**. Learning takes place through **absorbing into the existing schema** and accommodating when schema change is required.((Piaget also uses concepts of schema and schemata, later expanded by Anderson. See: [[learning_theories:​Schema theory]]))
   * **Preoperational stage** (2 to 6/7 years): Children now **develop language** and **mental imagery skills**, but still cannot conceptualize abstractly and don't have sense of time. A child can now think about events and things that aren't present in the moment of speaking. He can **see the world** only from **his perspective** and assumes other do so as well. Teaching a child in this stage must take into account his not fully understand concepts of time phenomenon.   * **Preoperational stage** (2 to 6/7 years): Children now **develop language** and **mental imagery skills**, but still cannot conceptualize abstractly and don't have sense of time. A child can now think about events and things that aren't present in the moment of speaking. He can **see the world** only from **his perspective** and assumes other do so as well. Teaching a child in this stage must take into account his not fully understand concepts of time phenomenon.
   * **Concrete operations** (6/7 to 11/12 years): Children in this stage of development are able to analyze more perspectives simultaneously. Much of learning if performed through assimilation. Although they can **understand concrete problems**, according to Piaget they still **cannot analyze abstract problems** and all of their logical consequences. ​   * **Concrete operations** (6/7 to 11/12 years): Children in this stage of development are able to analyze more perspectives simultaneously. Much of learning if performed through assimilation. Although they can **understand concrete problems**, according to Piaget they still **cannot analyze abstract problems** and all of their logical consequences. ​
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 [[http://​ehlt.flinders.edu.au/​education/​DLiT/​2000/​Piaget/​begin.htm|Edwards,​ L., Hopgood, J., Rosenberg, K. and Kymberley Rush. Development,​ Learning and inclusive Teaching: Mental Development and Education.]] [[http://​ehlt.flinders.edu.au/​education/​DLiT/​2000/​Piaget/​begin.htm|Edwards,​ L., Hopgood, J., Rosenberg, K. and Kymberley Rush. Development,​ Learning and inclusive Teaching: Mental Development and Education.]]
  
 +[[http://​projects.coe.uga.edu/​epltt/​index.php?​title=Piaget%27s_Stages|Wood,​ Kay C., Smith, H. and Daurice Grossniklaus. Piaget'​s Stages of Cognitive Development.]]
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