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Chapter 4 Learning Activity
Background:
Jean Piaget is one of the most famous theorists in developmental psychology. Piaget suggested that children are biologically prepared to develop increasing cognitive capacities through a process of maturation. As children mature, they go through qualitatively different stages of cognitive development, with each representing distinct skills and abilities for any given age. During Infancy and Toddlerhood, Piaget suggested that infants and toddlers are in the Sensorimotor stage of development, whereby much of their cognitive understanding comes by way of their senses and motor, or movement, interacting within their environment. Those interactions produce cognitive understanding that continues to expand as children progress through the vartious stages of Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development. Piaget broke the Sensorimotor Stage into six substages as follows:
Instructions:
Please watch the Piaget video provided for additional information about his theory:
Please create a post whereby you post a picture for each of the six substages, which accurately represents the main features of substage. Additionally, you need to provide an explanation describing in your own words each of Piaget’s sensorimotor substages in sequence and how the picture illustrates each stage. You will not receive credit if you use a picture that was already used in another student’s blog. Additionally, you may not receive credit if you do not provide an explanation of the example for the substage.
Remember to cover all SIX substages. Feel free to use other outside resources. I want you to get in the habit of learning how to find the answers using other academic online sources.