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... five areas and known as the Denver development. The five areas are physical, emotional, social, cognitive and psychological. Many psychologists have come up with their own different theoretical approaches to child development. One of those psychologists was Jean Piaget, who focused mainly on cognitive development. Piaget argued that younger children do not have the intellectual abilities as older children, and that all children experience a procedure of cognitive development in order to reach the ability of an older child. Piaget believed there are a number of stages all children experience in an identical order and argues that these stages are natural. Piaget's stages of cognitive development were as follows; Age Stage Characteristics Acquired Awareness 0 to 2 Sensory motor senses and motor capabilities object permanence 2 to 6 Preoperational symbolic thinking decentring, multiple points of view 7 to 11 Concrete Operations logical thought number, classification of objects 11 to adult Formal Operations abstractions, hypotheticals ethics, theoretical approach The sensory motor stage is when children use their senses to learn what ...