Cognitive Psychologist on child development ages 0-2
Piaget
One of the major experts on Cognitive Development Said that children go through a series of cognitive stages of development. Ages 0-2 he called the sensorimotor stage
Sensorimotor Stage
Birth to Age 2Learning by actions (doing, seeing, smelling, hearing, etc.) Cognitive development by interaction with the environment.
Processes of Development in Sensorimotor Stage
Adaptation Adjusting behavior based on stimuliAssimilation or AccommodationEquilibrium Balance between self and environmentObject Permanence Realization of Self vs. World
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References
Berk, L. E., Meyers, A. B. (2016). Infants, Children, and Adolescents, 8th Edition. [Kaplan]. Retrieved from https://kaplan.vitalsource.com/#/books/9781323485811/ Charlesworth, R. (2013). Understanding child development. Cengage Learning.Di Leo, J. (2014). Child development: Analysis and synthesis. Routledge.