Outline the 6 substages in Piaget’s sensorimotor stage of development
What will be an ideal response?
Stage 1 – Infants use primarily reflexive behavior.
Stage 2 – Infants begin to engage in voluntary behavior over which they have control, but limited to actions involving the recreation of a bodily sensation (primary circular reaction).
Stage 3 – Infants engage in behavior that seeks to create or reproduce events in the external world (secondary circular reaction).
Stage 4: Infants coordinate or chain together two secondary circular reactions in order to achieve little goals, such as picking up a cup in order to see what is inside.
Stage 5: Infants engage in alternative behaviors when their first attempt to solve a problem does not work (trial and error problem solving).
In addition, they intentionally vary their behavior just to observe the effect on the environment (little experiments).
Stage 6: Infants are able to form symbolic mental representations of actions or objects, and can work out the sequence of actions to solve a problem mentally, without trial and error attempts.
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