Essay On Sensorimotor Stage

Children under the sensorimotor stage demonstrate a certain number of stages, which range from simple reflexes to the coordination of means and ends. Sensorimotor cognition focuses on movements and actions without language, like the thumb-sucking or the finger-grasping of a baby. According to Piaget, the sensorimotor stage is made up of displacements which are subject to reversal, although not mathematically. This means that a child can return to his starting point and attain the same ends by different means.
The pre-operational stage is a transition period from the stage of early childhood to the early forms of social behavior, encompassing the pre-operational phase. Piaget divided this stage into two further divisions: the pre-conceptual stage and the stage of intuitive thinking.
The pre-conceptual stage occurs usually in two to four years of age, and it is where the child recognizes perceptual features of different individual situations. Piaget believes that the development of mental images plays a vital function in enabling children to look forward to repeating events, and also to plan actions in advance. The second sub-stage of the pre-operational stage is the stage of intuitive thinking or intuitive thought. The judgment of the child at this stage is subjective and instinctive, but it …show more content…
During this period, children become capable of reasoning and formulating cognitive analysis, not only on the basis of objects but also on that of hypotheses. Children in this stage also become capable in performing “operations on operations” in a methodical approach. The formulation and deduction of hypotheses leads to a level of thought which expresses itself in linguistic systematized statements of proposals and logical manufacture. Children in this stage are usually those under the age of eleven or