Describe Piaget’s four stages of maturation.

What will be an ideal response?

Piaget demonstrated that a child’s interactions with the environment become more
complex and adaptive as its cognitive structure becomes more articulated through
maturation and experience. From birth to about age 2, the child is in the sensorimotor
stage where the infant develops associations between sensations and actions. From
about 2 to around 7, the child is in the preoperational stage. This stage is when the
child begins to understand how the world works and is organized, as well as how to
speak and act within such constraints. The child is in the concrete operations stage
from around age 7 to 11-12. Problem-solving skills related to tangible objects further
develops during this period, but problem-solving skills involving abstract ideas do not
emerge until the final stage—the formal operations stage.