Jean Piaget Research Paper

Jean Piaget has four stages to his theory of cognitive development. The first stage being the sensorimotor stage, which occurs from the time a child is born until they are about two years old. During this time of every humans live, they begin to learn that there are more things in their world that are not just in front of them at the moment. Infants use their senses to help them learn throughout this crucial stage in life. The sensorimotor stage is important and has impacted my life and development the most because it helped me learn about the surrounding world at a young age. My parents and siblings told me that when I was a baby I liked to play peek-a-boo with people. They would cover their faces and pretend to be hiding. I use to wonder why this simple game is fun for babies. When one “hides” by covering his or her face, the baby thinks the person is gone. At this age, babies do not know that the person is still present. Once one uncovers his or her face, the baby thinks the person has …show more content…
“Object permanence is the awareness that an object continues to exist even when it is not in view”. Once object permanence is developed, peek-a-boo is no longer as exciting to infants because he or she knows the person covering his or her face is still present in the room and has not disappeared. My brother tells me about how when I was a baby he would hide one of my toys behind his back and I would just look at him and did not try to look for the toy to get it back. This is an example of before I had developed object permanence because I just assumed the toy disappeared. He also told me that when I was about one year old, he hid one of my toys behind his back just like before, but this time I knew it still existed and searched for the toy behind my brother’s back and found the toy. At that age, I had already developed object permanence and learned that the toy did not actually