Quantitive Thinking In Adult Psychology

QUALITATIVE DIFFERENCES IN ADULTS’ THINKING

Jean Piaget, a Swiss psychologist who developed a theory of cognitive

development has had a huge impact on cognitive development studies.

Piaget suggested that children go through four separate stages of cognitive

development in a fixed order that is universal in all children (Kodat, 2001).

Piaget declared that these stages differ not only in the quantity of information

acquired at each, but also in the quality of knowledge and understanding at

that stage. Piaget suggested that movement from one stage to the next

occurred when the child reached an appropriate age and was exposed to

relevant types of experiences. Without experience, children were assumed

incapable of reaching their highest cognitive ability. Piaget’s four stages are

known as the sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal

Piaget’s sensorimotor period is the first stage of development and is seen

in infants. The preoperational period is the next stage of development and

includes the thinking and responses of young children. The concrete

operational period is the time that a child beg

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