PSYC 4070 Chapter : Dev Psyc Chapter 6
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Chapter 6 the first two years: cognitive development. Adaptation, according to piaget, is the core of intelligence. Piaget described four distinct periods of cognitive development. The first begins at birth and ends at about 24 months. Piaget called it sensorimotor intelligence because infants learn through their senses and motor skills. This two-year- long period is subdivided into six stages. Primary circular reactions the first of three types of feedback loops in sensorimotor intelligence, this one involving the infant"s own body. The infant senses motion, sucking, noise, and other stimuli, and tries to understand the. Stage 1 stage of reflexes this stage lasts for only one month. It includes senses as well as motor reflexes, the foundations of infant thought. Reflexes become deliberate; sensation leads to perception and then to cognition. Stage 2 stage of first habits adaptation is cognitive; it includes both assimilation and accommodation, which people use to understand their experience.
