Child Development

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Child Development

Introduction

This paper aims at research about the one of the Piaget's stages of child development. Everyone wants their children to develop greater independence, confidence and self control. To achieve or helping the child to achieve it is necessary to provide a productive and learning environment to the child. This paper focuses on building physical layout for the children of preoperational stage of Piaget's theory for helping them learn and foster positive development in their lives.

Overview of Piaget's Theory

Child development is a procedure through which every child goes through. This whole process involves several activities for learning and mastering of skills like walking, sitting, tying shoes and skipping.

Early childhood is not only a period of amazing physical growth; it is also a time of significant mental development. Cognitive abilities associated with reasoning, problem solving, thinking and memory continue to emerge throughout the span of childhood. There has been a lot of research done by different psychologist on cognitive development of children. One famous psychologist who has worked on the cognitive development of children is "Jean Piaget." Piaget created a theory of cognitive development that describes the basic stages children go through as they mentally mature. The stages included in Piaget's stage theory are:

The Sensorimotor Period (birth to 2 years)

The Sensorimotor period, according to Piaget cognitive system of the child is restricted to motor reactions at birth but while passing through child put together these reflexes in order to build up more sophisticated procedures. They gain knowledge to simplify their behavior and activities to a broad scope of situations and coordinated them into progressively long train of activities.

PreOperational Thought (2 to 6/7 years)

At this age, Piaget suggested that child gain representation skills in the areas of language and mental images. At this stage children are self-oriented and they use their figurative skills to analyze the world from their angle of thoughts and viewpoint.

Concrete Operations (6/7 to 11/12 years)

At this stage, Piaget defined that cognitive development of children changes in the sense that they agree to get another's point of view for consideration and look things with more than one perspective concurrently.

Formal Operations (11/12 to adult)

According to Piaget, children at this stage become skilled of thinking rationally and tentatively. More than this, they can also reason theoretically along with making logical arguments. This is the last stage of cognitive development, and as the children modify their knowledge base their method of judgment gets powerful accordingly.

Development Characteristics of the Selected Age Group

The age group that I have selected in this project is from 3 to 7 years. This age category falls in the Preoperational Thought of the Piaget's stage theory. The development characteristics of the selected age group are given below:

Transduction logic

Children in preoperational stage make associations between unrelated actions when they randomly occurred together. For example, the father makes a phone call and then leaves the house to go for grocery shopping. The child thinks that whenever his father will make a phone call, ...