Maryville University NURS 663 Piaget's Cognitive Development Prep Test Q&A

Maryville University NURS 663 Piaget's Cognitive Development Prep Test Q&A Sensorimotor Stage - ANSWER Ages: Birth to 2 years Sensorimotor Stage - ANSWER Knows the world through their movements and sensations Sensorimotor Stage - ANSWER Children learn about the world through basic actions such as sucking, grasping, looking, and listening Sensorimotor Stage - ANSWER Learn that things continue to exist even though they cannot be seen (object permanence) Sensorimotor Stage - ANSWER They are separate beings from the people and objects around them Sensorimotor Stage - ANSWER They realize that their actions can cause things to happen in the world around them Sensorimotor Stage - ANSWER A child's entire experience at the earliest period of this stage occurs through basic reflexes, senses, and motor responses. Sensorimotor Stage - ANSWER children go through a period of dramatic growth and learning. As kids interact with their environment, they are continually making new discoveries about how the world works. Sensorimotor Stage - ANSWER The cognitive development that occurs during this period takes place over a relatively short period of time and involves a great deal of growth. Children not only learn how to perform physical actions such as crawling and walking; they also learn a great deal about language from the people with whom they interact. Piaget also broke this stage down into a number of different substages. It is during the final part of the this stage that early representational thought emerges. Sensorimotor Stage - ANSWER Piaget believed that developing object permanence or object constancy, the understanding that objects continue to exist even when they cannot be seen, was an important element at this point of development. By learning that objects are separate and distinct entities and that they have an existence of their own outside of individual perception, children are then able to begin to attach names and words to objects.