Piaget's Stages Of Development Essay

According to Piaget, a child’s mind develops throughout the course of four stages in their earlier years of life. Piaget believed that children establish their understandings of the world by actually experiencing it. He also believed that nature and nurture were both valuable factors in a child’s cognitive growth, but he presumed that it happened in different stages rather than a continuous progression of growth. Piaget separated cognitive development into four stages. The first stage, from birth to about two years of age, is sensorimotor. During this stage a child experiences the world through their senses and actions, such as touching, mouthing and seeing. During the sensorimotor stage the developmental phenomena includes object permanence, which is the the awareness that something still exists even when it can’t be seen, and stranger anxiety, when an infant fears an a stranger and seeks the comfort of their parent. The second stage, from age two to six or seven years of age, is the preoperational stage. This is the stage where children use their words and images to represent something and are very intuitive rather than logical. During this stage a child will start to “pretend play” because they are …show more content…
During these experiments psychologists can determine if the child has a secure attachment or insecure attachment. They have learned that the type of attachment is based off of the child’s temperament along with the caregiver’s responsiveness. In the video, baby Lisa’s response was indicated as a secure attachment style. This is because in the the reaction of the secure attachment, the child will typically become upset when their parent leaves and happy when they return. The securely attached child will seek comfort in their parent in stressful situations. Lisa’s mother is most likely responsive, sensitive and playful with Lisa and that is why Lisa has a secure