Analyzing Piaget's Theory Of Cognitive Development

The assignment I chose to do was the Child Development Art. The topic I chose was Piaget’s theory of cognitive development, object permanence. Object permanence is a developmental theory that looks at how children develop socially and mentally. It is the understanding that an object will always exist even when the object cannot be seen in any way. In other words, a child will always look for an object where they last saw it. If there were three blankets lying in front of the child, A B and C, and the ball was hidden under blanket C for three trial runs, the child would look under blanket C for the ball. If the ball were moved from blanket C to blanket A, the child would still continue to look under blanket C even though the ball clearly moved …show more content…
It is a part of the sensorimotor stage. If a child under the age of twelve months is looking at the toy under the blanket, they do not know the object is there unless the blanket is removed. If you try and switch the blanket around so you can look to see if the child will understand that the toy has moved to a new location, the child will not understand. The child will continue to look under the blanket you had placed the toy under from before. A child between the ages of eight- twelve months has underdeveloped object permanence. Meaning that they will only have a little sense of what is actually going on. The child will only be able to find the object if it is hidden where it was originally hidden, not in a new place. Through this, objects do not have a separate, more permanent …show more content…
Stage one ranges from months zero-one month old. This stage is called the Reflex Schema Stage. This stage is when babies learn how the body works. The child are not usually able to tell is an object is gone or not and they mostly tend to visual track because they prefer to look at faces as a newborn. The second stage is called the Primary Circular Reactions stage and it usually occurs from months one-four. In this stage, babies will begin to notice the presence of the objects, and actually be able to follow the movements of the objects and other things. The baby has a shorter attention span and during this stage, they begin to learn where everything is on their body. The infant will begin to remember faces like the ones of their parental figures and their grandparents and friends. They also begin to respond to familiar sounds. The infant has many responses to all of these new ideas. The third stage is called the Secondary Circular Reaction stage and it looks at how babies react knowing that the certain object exists even if only a little bit of the object is shown, and coordination skills. This stage is usually seen during four-eight months. During this stage, an infant will start to repeat actions that they have an interest in. For example, if an infant likes the sound that a rubber duck makes when they squeeze it, they will continue to squeeze it out of pure enjoyment. The fourth stage is coordinating secondary schemes and is