Cognitive Development of Infants
Piaget's sensorimotor model provides the stage of cognitive human development showing that human experience consists of four stages of mental or cognitive starting from the first day a child is born to the adulthood. The first stage of human development is referred as the sensorimotor stage that starts at birth and end when a child is 24 months old. After the age of 24 months, a child moves to the operational stage starts when a child is 2 years old through the age of 7. A child moves into the final stage of behavioral and cognitive development at the age of adolescence that spans through adulthood. The objective of this study is to discuss the "six stages of Piaget's sensorimotor development." (Shaffer, & Kipp, 2010 p 253).
Piaget's sensorimotor Development
Piaget identifies the first two years of a child as the "sensorimotor stage of development." (Shaffer, & Kipp, 2010 p 253). However, the following are six sub-stages of a child development:
1. Simple reflexes
2. primary circular reactions and first habits
3. Secondary circular reactions
4. A coordination of infant's secondary circular reactions
5. Curiosity, novelty and tertiary circular reactions, and
6. Internalization of schemes
Piaget points out that in the first month of a child's birth, a child displays actions through reflexive behaviors and coordinating sensation. At this stage, the infant...
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