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Analyze dimensions of development in relation to one another within the context of child and adolescent development.

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(a) Childhood consists of infancy, early childhood, and middle or late childhood. Infancy is the period of birth to 24 months; early childhood is the period of infancy to five years; and middle or late childhood involves the period of six years to 11 years. Childhood is the period when development involves the recognition of the self-understanding and self-recognition, particularly early childhood. As Piaget noted, children learn by interacting with their environment. Piaget's cognitive development theory theories held that children go through four stages:

(1) Sensorimotor stage [describing their world],
(2) Preoperational stage [child utilizes symbols and images],
(3) Concrete operations stage [child develops logical mental operations], and
(4) Formal operations stage [thinking and reasoning is developed] (Plotnik, 1986, 382).

Reviewing Piaget's stages of cognitive development, children progress in developing maturity through the four stages mentioned earlier. In stage 1, the child learns by interacting with the environment, in Stage 2 they learn to use symbols, words, and/or mental images. Children form logical mental operations in Stage 3, including the ability to classify objects. Piaget theory ...

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