Continuing On

Jean Piaget - The creator if 3 cognitive processes. These are the Schema, assimilation and accomodation. I like how Piaget put each learning ability into 4 different stages. I agree with how he put it also. The first stage being sensorimotor. This is nice because from birth to the age of 2 we start to use our senses to learn different things and how to react with them. The second is preoperational. From 2 to 7 years of age we go through so many sub-stages trying to learn different things. We learn things like language and egocentrism. I remember being very egocentric. It took a long time for me to get passed this point. I remember walking around day after day thinking that what I wanted was what everybody wanted. Nobody elses views or opinions mattered to me. The third stage is concrete operational. 7 to 11 year olds go through this stage because they start getting a better handle on reasoning and classifying objects. This was a good stage for me. I learned to use logical reasoning in determining what to do. Thinking before doing really became a big part of who I am today. The final stage is formal operational. This is the stage for 11 year olds to adulthood fall into. Of course, this is the stage I find myself in now. I find myself being far more reasonable now than I was in the concrete operational stage.

Of course, with every theory there are concerns. For instance - some children might now move in the order or the age. Some might be slower to reach each stage than the others. Another example is that the environment plays a big role in the development of who we are.