CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Within the sensorimotor stage, there are six sub-stages. These sub-stages are: Reflex acts. This stage happens within the first month of an infant’s life, when the reflexive acts of a baby first begin.

Detailed explanation-2: -The sensorimotor stage of development can be broken down into six additional sub-stages including simple reflexes, primary circular reactions, secondary circular reactions, coordination of reactions, tertiary circular reactions, and early symbolic thought.

Detailed explanation-3: -Piaget divided children’s cognitive development in four stages, each of the stages represent a new way of thinking and understanding the world. He called them (1) sensorimotor intelligence, (2) preoperational thinking, (3) concrete operational thinking, and (4) formal operational thinking.

Detailed explanation-4: -The sensorimotor stage is the first of the four stages Piaget uses to definecognitive development. Piaget designated the first two years of an infants lifeas the sensorimotor stage. During this period, infants are busy discovering relationships betweentheir bodies and the environment.