CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD

PIAGET

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The sensorimotor stage focuses primarily on..
A
motor skills
B
language development
C
understanding of others perspective
D
understanding complex mathematics
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -It begins at birth and lasts through age 2. During this period, your little one learns about the world by using their senses to interact with their surroundings. They touch things, lick them, bang them together (with joy, we might add), and put them into their mouths. They also begin to develop fine motor skills.

Detailed explanation-2: -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. Researchers have discovered that infants haverelatively well developed sensory abilities.

Detailed explanation-3: -Overview of the Sensorimotor Stage Through trial and error, children discover more about the world around them. Piaget chose to call this stage the ‘sensorimotor’ stage because it is through the senses and motor abilities that infants gain a basic understanding of the world around them.

Detailed explanation-4: -The main development during the sensorimotor stage is the understanding that objects exist and events occur in the world independently of one’s own actions (’the object concept’, or ‘object permanence’).

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