Piget's Developmental Learning Stages

Question 1

Sensorimotor

Answer 1

Birth-2 years old

Children learn about the world through their senses and motor skills

Question 2

Preoperational

Answer 2

2-6 years old

• Children begin to think symbolically and from language skills
• pretend and fantasize during play
• thinking is self-centered

Question 3

Concrete operation

Answer 3

7-11 years old

• children perceive differences and begin to reason
• can classify and attend to multiple situation

Question 4

Formal operations

Answer 4

12-adulthood

• children and adults can grasp abstract concepts
• more formal notion of time
• long-term goal setting developers
• learning takes place by relating new material to past material