Jean Piaget Four Developmental Stages

Throughout life everyone goes through stages. These stages can tell a lot about a person and looking at the stages throughout someone’s life is a way of determining the way someone grew up or what they have gone through in their lives. Three different phycologists have examined these different stages you have went through in life to try and explain the stages. Although all three of their ways of looking at the stages a person goes through in life, all contain a few constants. Jean Piaget proposed a four state cognitive development. The four different stages are the sensorimotor state, the preoperational stage, the concrete operational stage and then the formal operational period. These four stages start at birth and go through approximately …show more content…
These stages are progressive compared to the other two phycologists and he has more stages because he was wanted to be more specific. There is a total of eight stages in his studies. Growing up I went through stages as described as Piaget, Kohlberg and Erikson and will present these stages in this essay. (I don’t know if that is a good enough thesis)
To begin, the first theory that I will be discussing is Jean Piaget and his theory of cognitive development. This is a four stage theory, as I explained earlier in this essay. The first stage, the sensory motor stage, which effects babies from when they are born until around the age of two. In my life these years are nonexistent to me, due to the fact that I cannot remember these years, but one main part of this first stage is the development of curiosity. My mother and father would always having to stop me from conducting my own little science experiments, as they called them. I was always trying to figure out what things were and sometimes that required getting a little dirty …show more content…
This certain theory has a total of eight stages, and is a more detailed and goes further into the life cycle than Piaget and Kohlberg’s theory. Erikson breaks each of these eights stages into a pro and con per say. The first stage is trust versus mistrust as an example. All eight stages have one of these and it really helps to explain the purpose for that stage and how it affects someone’s life. I will now discuss the stages I have gone though so far in my life. Infancy is the first stage and it is from birth to year one, this is the trust versus mistrust stage. When I was that age I trusted my mother and father to take care of me and to make sure that nothing would happen to me. The second stage is toddlerhood and this is from the ages one to two and it is the stage of autonomy versus shame and doubt. This is when I learned to walk on my own so that I could move and go where I wanted to. Another skill that I learned during this time was going to the bathroom, which was a huge accomplishment for me and my mother. The third stage is preschooler and this is from the age’s three to five and is the initiative versus guilt. My dad is a mechanic and when he used to work on cars I would get my bike and pretend that I was working on my bike so that I felt like I was doing something too, and in hope that my dad would be proud of me and my work. Elementary school is