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Race Ission Ollege: Substages of Piaget's Sensorimotor Stage

This document discusses the cognitive development of infants and toddlers. It outlines Jean Piaget's stages of cognitive development, with a focus on the Sensorimotor Stage from birth to 2 years old. This stage involves learning through the senses and physical interactions with the world. It describes the 6 substages of the Sensorimotor Stage, how infants' skills and understanding progress during each. The document provides activities for students to research and reflect on factors that influence cognitive development and implications for parenting and teaching.

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Race Ission Ollege: Substages of Piaget's Sensorimotor Stage

This document discusses the cognitive development of infants and toddlers. It outlines Jean Piaget's stages of cognitive development, with a focus on the Sensorimotor Stage from birth to 2 years old. This stage involves learning through the senses and physical interactions with the world. It describes the 6 substages of the Sensorimotor Stage, how infants' skills and understanding progress during each. The document provides activities for students to research and reflect on factors that influence cognitive development and implications for parenting and teaching.

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GRACE MISSION COLLEGE

Catiningan, Socorro, Oriental Mindoro


e-Mail: grace.missioncollege@yahoo.com

Module
MODULE 2 13 Subject: The Child and Adolescent Learners and Learning Principles

Cognitive Development of Infants and Toddlers


At the end of this Module, you should be able to:

 trace the cognitive development of infants and toddlers,


 identify factors that enhance/ impede the cognitive development of infants and toddlers,
 present your own or others’ research on the cognitive development of infants and toddlers and
 draw implications of cognitive development concepts to child care, education and parenting.

INTRODUCTION
Cognitive development in infancy refers to development in the way a baby thinks. This includes his/her
language communication and exploration skills. Examples of cognitive activities include paying attention, remembering’
learning to talk, interacting with toys and identifying faces.
Jean Piaget is the most noted theorist when it comes to children’s cognitive development. He believed that
children’s cognition develops in stages. He explained this growth in the following stages:
*Sensory Motor Stage (Birth through 2 years old)
*Preoperational Stage (2-7 years old)
*Concrete Operational Stage (7-11 years old)
*Formal Operational Stage (12 years old- adulthood)
Piaget describes intelligence in infancy as sensorimotor or based on direct, physical contact. Infants taste, feel,
pound, push, hear, and move in order to experience the world.
Substages of Piaget’s Sensorimotor Stage
Substage Age Description
This active learning begins with automatic movements or reflexes. A ball
Substage One: Birth to
comes into contact with an infant’s cheek and is automatically sucked on and
Simple Reflexes 1 month
licked.

The infant begins to discriminate between objects and adjust responses


accordingly as reflexes are replaced with voluntary movements. An infant
Substage Two:
may accidentally engage in a behavior and find it interesting such as making a
Primary 1 to 4
vocalization. This interest motivates trying to do it again and helps the infant
Circular months
learn a new behavior that originally occurred by chance. At first, most actions
Reactions
have to do with the body, but in months to come, will be directed more toward
objects.

The infant becomes more and more actively engaged in the outside world and
Substage Three:
4 to 8 takes delight in being able to make things happen. Repeated motion brings
Secondary
months particular interest as the infant is able to bang two lids together from the
Circular Reactions
cupboard when seated on the kitchen floor.
GRACE MISSION COLLEGE
Catiningan, Socorro, Oriental Mindoro
e-Mail: grace.missioncollege@yahoo.com

Substage Age Description

The infant can engage in behaviors that others perform and anticipate
upcoming events. Perhaps because of continued maturation of the prefrontal
Substage Four:
8 to 12 cortex, the infant becomes capable of having a thought and carrying out a
Coordination of
months planned, goal-directed activity such as seeking a toy that has rolled under the
circular reactions
couch. The object continues to exist in the infant’s mind even when out of sight
and the infant now is capable of making attempts to retrieve it.

The infant more actively engages in experimentation to learn about the physical
Substage Five: world. Gravity is learned by pouring water from a cup or pushing bowls from
Tertiary 12 to 18 high chairs. The caregiver tries to help the child by picking it up again and
Circular months placing it on the tray. And what happens? Another experiment! The child
Reactions pushes it off the tray again causing it to fall and the caregiver to pick it up
again!

The child is now able to solve problems using mental strategies, to remember
something heard days before and repeat it, to engage in pretend play, and to find
Substage Six: objects that have been moved even when out of sight. Take for instance, the
Internalization of child who is upstairs in a room with the door closed, supposedly taking a nap.
18 months
Schemes and Early The doorknob has a safety device on it that makes it impossible for the child to
to 2 years
Representational turn the knob. After trying several times in vain to push the door or turn the
thought doorknob, the child carries out a mental strategy learned from prior experience
to get the door opened-he knocks on the door! The child is now better equipped
with mental strategies for problem-solving.
GRACE MISSION COLLEGE
Catiningan, Socorro, Oriental Mindoro
e-Mail: grace.missioncollege@yahoo.com
GRACE MISSION COLLEGE
Catiningan, Socorro, Oriental Mindoro
e-Mail: grace.missioncollege@yahoo.com
GRACE MISSION COLLEGE
Catiningan, Socorro, Oriental Mindoro
e-Mail: grace.missioncollege@yahoo.com

Activity No. 2
What is the greatest factor that enhance/ impede the cognitive development of infants and toddlers?

Activity No. 3
Direction: Read a research related to cognitive development of infants and toddlers. Give a summary of the research by
filling out the matrix below.
Problem: Research Methodology:

Source: (bibliographical/ link entry


Findings: format) Concusions:

How are the findings of this research useful to teachers?


__________________________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Activity No. 4
Reflection
Based on Piaget’s sensorimotor stage and the first year of pre-operational stage of cognitive development,
reflect on how you, as a future parent or nursery teacher can:

 enhance infant and toddlers’ cognitive development or


 impede infants and toddlers’ cognitive development.

Prepared by:

ROSWELL O. TOLENTINO, EdD


Instructor

“Infants and toddlers are born ready to learn. They learn through listening to language, trying out sounds,
tasting foods and exploring their environments in countless ways everyday.”
-Kahlil Gibran-

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