Describe cognitive development through Piaget’s stages. Then identify the factors that cause changes in thinking from this perspective.

What will be an ideal response?


The ansers should describe sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational, with key distinctions presented between these in their description (e.g., the first being sensory and motor experiences, second involving ability to form mental representations but thinking being one-way, operations involving development of logic and reversibility, and formal involving abstract/hypothetical concepts). Factors identified should include maturation, active exploration, social interactions, and equilibration.

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