Do children go through specific stages of mind development at certain
ages? If so, what are these

Hi! Thanks for the question. 

Jean Piaget developed a model on the developmental stages of the minds
of children. A child?s mind development according to him goes to the
following stages:

Sensori-motor   - Birth to 2 yrs
Pre-operational ? 2 to 7yrs.
Concrete Operational ? 7 to 11 years
Formal Operational ? 11 years and up


Here are some links explaining such stages.

?Piaget?
http://www.dmu.ac.uk/~jamesa/learning/piaget.htm 

?Stages of Intellectual Development In Children and Teenagers?
http://www.childdevelopmentinfo.com/development/piaget.shtml  

?Jean Piaget?s Theory of Development?
http://chd.gse.gmu.edu/immersion/knowledgebase/theorists/constructivism/Piaget.htm 


Our next links provide other theories of mind development.

?Erikson's Eight Stages of Human Development?
http://psychology.about.com/library/weekly/aa091500a.htm 

?Freud's Psychosexual Stages of Development?
http://psychology.about.com/library/weekly/aa111500a.htm 


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