According to Piaget’s stages of cognitive development, the infant that was observed would fall into the second stage, preoperational stage. Piaget’s preoperational stage is where the infant develops his/her thoughts focusing on mental exploration of the world (Anderson, 2015a). Infants are mentally manipulating information obtained and do not yet understand the concrete logic of their surroundings (). Within the preoperational stage (2-7 years of age), infants develop centration, egocentric thought and intuitive thoughts. Centration is when the infant focuses on a particular thing tending to ignore the rest (Anderson, 2015a). This was exposed in my observation were the infant (Annette) was concentrated in looking around and staring at other
