Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development: A Comprehensive Guide

Posted on May 13, 2024 in Psychology and Sociology

Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development

Develop a capacity for industry while avoiding an excessive sense of inferiority.
Children should domesticate their imagination and engage in education to learn the skills necessary to meet the demands of society.
Parents, teachers, and peers must encourage, care for, and accept children.
Children must learn that there is pleasure not only in conceiving a plan but also in carrying it out.
Failure can lead to a sense of inferiority or incompetence.
Racism, sexism, and other forms of discrimination can contribute to inferiority.
Excessive pressure can lead to maladaptive tendencies of virtuosity.
Children who are not allowed to be children may develop a sense of inertia or inferiority.
The ideal balance is between industry and inferiority, leading to a sense of competence.

Meta: Achieve ego identity and avoid role confusion.
Society must provide defined rites of passage.
The difference between childhood and adult responsibility must be clearly established.
Without these, adolescents may experience role confusion.
Psychosocial moratorium encourages young people to take time off.
Fanaticism: Excessive effort to assume stereotypical characteristics of the correct identity.
Repudiation: Lack of identity, rejection of social norms.
Fidelity: Negotiating this time successfully, loyalty despite imperfections.

Intimacy: The possibility of being close to others as lovers or friends.
Promiscuity: Becoming very open and easily intimate without depth or respect for privacy.
Exclusion: Trend towards maximum isolation, constant feeling of anger or irritability.
Love: Virtue and psychosocial strength to get through this phase, ability to remove differences and antagonisms.

Period dedicated to the upbringing of children.
Achieving an appropriate balance between productivity and stagnation.
Overextension: Trying to be so productive that there is no time for relaxation.

Heteronomy: Rules are external, specific, and leave little room for personal reflection.
Moral Autonomy: Act in such a way that the maxim that guides your life can become a universal law.

Ethics: Systematic reflection on the most appropriate way to act and live life.
The Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.