Jean Piaget's Stages

Sensorimotor

0-2 months

Focuses on senses

Object permanence

Stranger Anxiety

Preoperational

2-6 years

language development

pretend play

egocentrism

theory of mind

autism

Concrete Operational

7-11 years old

thinking logically about concrete events

math transformations

conservation

Formal Operational

12+ years

use abstract logic, hypotheticals, symbols

object permanence

sensorimotor; if something is hidden, it's gone

stranger anxiety

sensorimotor

pretend play

preoperational; helps with creativity, imagination, forming neural networks

egocentrism

preoperational; can not perceive things from another point of view

theory of mind

preoperational; start to understand that others have their own minds

autism

preoperational; think in images; unable to understand peoples' states of mind, deficiency in communication