Sensorimotor Intelligence

Sensorimotor Intelligence

1. the way infants think by using their senses and motor skills

2. 6 stages

3. primary circular reactions

   • responses to own body
   • stage 1: reflexes
     • birth - 1 month
     • reflexes become delibarite
     • senses and motor reflexes
   • stage 2: the first acquired adaptations
     • reflexes adjust based on responses
     • adaption is cognitive
     • accommodation and assimilation
     • 1-4 months

4. secondary circular reactions

   • stage 3: making interesting sights last
     • attempt to produce exciting experiences
     • 4-8 months
   • responses to objects and people
   • stage 4: new adaption and anticipation
     • babies ask for help to get what they want
     • thinking is more innovative because adaption is more complete
     • 8 months- 1 year
       • object premance
         • realization that objects still exist when they no longer can be seen

5. tertiary circular reactions

   • stage 5: new means through active experimentation
     • goal directed
     • little scientists
     • experiment in order to see
     • 12-18 months
     • trial and error
   • first with action then with ideas
   • Stage 6: new means through mental combinations
     • can experiment through imigination
     • 18-24 months
     • combine ideas and think about consequences, hesitating before doing
     • starting to think before doing
     • deferred imitation
       • involves thinking and memory
       • infants copy behavior noticed days or hours before