Week 3, Post #1

Summary of Piaget's Cognitive Development:

Piaget states the first three sensorimotor intelligence infants learn through their senses, this stage extends form birth to 24 months. 

Six stages: 

        Stage One: Primary circular reactions (cycle of sensation, perception and cognition), also known at the stage of reflexes is where sensorimotor intelligence begins. These reflexes are the foundation of infant thought. Sensation leads to perception, then to cognition.  

Stage Two: (1 month) This stage is called acquired adaptation, also known as the stage of first habits. Babies go through assimilation and accommodation as they respond and react to their environment. Repeated reflexes provide knowledge of how those actions feel and what they do. Infants start sucking on anything that comes in contact with their mouth, this sucking reflex is evidence that babies begin to "interpret their perceptions" (p.155 ). 

Stage Three: (4-8 months) Secondary circular reactions, are the "interaction between the baby and something else." An enjoyable object encounter is prolonged by the baby. They know how to "continue an experience" (Berger, p. 155).

Stage Four: (8 months to 1 year) The adaptation and anticipation stage. Babies start "innovative thinking" in that they react to the environment by fussing to have their needs met. The baby will think, assess the situation, and then administer a response accordingly. This is different from previous functions, as a baby would smile first and throw out the first reaction. 

At 10 months, goal received behavior occurs, where cognitive advances click with motor skills. 

Enhanced awareness of cause and effect, memory drawing from previous encounters, understanding others intentions as come together at this point. In their second years, infants 

       Stage Five: (12-18 months) Tertiary circular reactions  also known as new means through active experimentation. Babies don't just respond to themselves, they respond to secondary factors such as other things and people. They explore through goal oriented activities and purposeful activities.

Stage Six (19-24 months months) Children gain ability to combine ideas, think of consequences, hesitate before making an action and comprehend real from whats not real. and deferred imitation, when toddlers retain an action from days earlier.