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Jean Piget was a Swiss Educational Psychologist, known as his stages of cognitive development
based on the observation of his own children.
He believed that a child's cognitive development has to pass through four major stages:
the Sensorimotor stage (0-2)
the Preoperational stage (2-7)
the Concrete operational stage (7-11)
the Formal operationa; stage (11+)
If a student has difficulty to accommodate the disequilibrium (conflict) to reach the equilibrium, he/she would be not ready to understand the knowledge which belongs to the next stage.
For example, many middle or high schools’ students who still stay in the concrete operational stage, will not have necessary abilities to understand formal knowledge.
On another hand, when a student assimilates the new knowledge into his/her wrong schemata, he/she would also get misconcepts which may lead to his/her inability to learn within the context in a result.
