The Child’s Preoperational Stage of Development, According to Piaget

Jean Piaget, a Swiss epistemologist, and biologist, devoted much of his life to making important contributions to childhood studies. Among them is the theory of cognitive development. According to this theory, the human being develops from birth, constantly overcoming different stages. Piaget introduced the idea of there being different mental processes of the child. His theories involved how a child thinks and in what ways this differs from adult thinking. He explained the evolution of children’s thinking through different stages, during which time they develop and evolve, both physically and mentally. This epistemologist affirmed that children’s development isn’t linear, but that…