It is very important to understand the cognitive development of children and
understand their mentality at each stage in order to promote and enrich social skills.
The children's understanding rate is amazing. In their first years of life there is a
development of their intelligence and mental capacities, such as memory, reasoning,
problem solving or thinking.
This information is based in acurate reserach and writings made by Jean Piaget, David
Mayers, and Nathan DeWall.
Piaget believed that children construct their understanding of the world while
interacting with it. Their minds experience spurts of change, followed by greater stability
as they move from one congnitive level to the next. Children will expose themselves
eventually to a different charachteristic of cognitivity, and it will allow them specific
ways of thinking. The four major stages that Piaget’s viewed – sensorimotor,
preoperational, concerte operational, and formal operational. (David G. Mayers, 2018,
pag. 175).
Understanding better, what Piaget found about children’s cognitive developmental
refers that human being brain is developed as a transition where every individual goes to
a transition one stage of mind to other. Let’s see an example.
A three yeas old Dimitry frequently takes other children’s toys from them, showing little
concern for their feelings, even when they cry. When he does this, his mother tells him to
“imagine how other kids feel when they lose their toys.”
a) Dimitri antisocial behavior is normal at this age, it’s very typical to not have empathy
with others, Dimitri’s in “Preoperational Stage” where he’s not able to understand
what other people feel or empathize with another point of view . It is not selfishness,
