Jean Piaget was a Swiss psychologist who did influential work in the field of cognitive psychology and child development.
<u>Piaget’s famous theory of cognitive development explains the phases and nature of human development during the formation years from 0 to 11. It explains how children acquire knowledge, how they perceive the world, and how they construct and use intelligence during the development.</u>
The theory poses four stages:
<u>Sensorimotor Stage</u> - lasts until year 2 – realizing that objects are there even when the person’s not directly looking at it.
<u>Preoperational stage</u> - from 2 to 7 years – ability to comprehend that word or object can mean something different; symbolic thinking.
<u>Concrete operational stage</u> – from 7 to 11 years – child starts to have logical and operational thoughts, working things out in head rather than in the real world.
<u>Formal operational stage</u> – from 11 and above – development of the abstract thoughts and concepts.
Closely related to visual arts are: Musical arts Language arts
They have a fundamental similarity in that visual arts, musical arts, and language arts are all used for the purpose of expression through different mediums.
