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Piaget’s stage of Cognitive Development has four stages: Sensorimotor, Preoperational, Concrete Operational, and Formal Operational. He discussed that the age that children achieve these stage of development can vary among individuals. Due to these variations the outlining on Piaget’s stages may also differ slightly. Sensorimotor occurs from birth to eighteen months and during this stage children learn through senses, reflexes, and by manipulate materials. Preoperational takes place from eighteen months to six years and during this stage children form ideas based on their perceptions and focus on one variable at a time. Concrete Operation happens from six years to twelve years and during this stage children form ideas based on reasoning and limit thinking to objects and familiar events. Formal Operational occurs from twelve years to older and in this stage children think conceptually and …show more content…
Many teachers think Piaget focused too much on the thought process and not enough on social emotional development. Children should be exploring by playing not by speaking their thoughts. Piaget also had a similar belief as Montessori that children should be learning experience through play by doing it independently. Children learn best by doing things themselves. They are interest in doing things if they are given opportunities. Piaget thinks children’s minds should be challenged. He thinks children construct their own knowledge by giving meaning to people. For instance, children engage in symbolic play (make-believe play), because they make sense of the objects and things that are surrounding