Piagets Stages of Cognitive Development: The First Stage Essay

The first exhibit is called the Sensorimotor stage. It occupies the first two years of a childs life, from birth to 2 years old. It is called the Sensorimotor stage because in it children are occupied with sensing things and moving them. From these activities they learn what makes things happen, what the connections are between actions and their consequences. They learn to grasp and hold and what happens when they let go. This happens later on in the stage. When they are new-born they have no concept of there being anything else apart from themselves in the world. In fact they think that they are the world. Piaget called this Egocentism he said that children with this stead were totally Egocentric. This does not mean that they are just plain selfish it means that they do...