Theories of Development

This assignment will involve reviewing developmental stages and applying these ideas to selecting appropriate toys or activities.
Directions
1. Looking at Piaget’s theory of cognitive development fill out the chart below. What did Piaget say that a child could do (accomplishment) but could not do (limitation) in each stage?

Age for Piaget

Name of stage

Accomplishments

Limitations

Birth – 2 years

2 – 6 years

6 – 11 years

12 and older

2. After you do that, describe (for each age group) an ideal toy or leisure activity. Describe why it would be a good toy/activity. You can describe this based on observations of children in your family (or on YouTube) or from looking at toys in stores.

2. Write your essay in a word processing program and save the essay to your computer as a .doc or .docx file. Please also follow the Written Assignment Guidelines.