Piaget : Sensorimotor stage

Piaget : Sensorimotor stage

1. building schemes through sensory and motor exploration

2. child builds on basic reflexes

3. Birth - 2 yrs

4. has six substages

   • sixth stage: use of symbolic thought and deferred information

5. develops object permanence

6. Piagetian sensorimotor tasks

   • one of Piaget's key contributions to child development was the use of novel methods to probe development
   • object permanence: object still exists when we can't see them
   • A not B task
     • A not B error
       • child perseverates, continuing to look at the initial location