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∙ How we as human beings develop cognitively has been thoroughly researched ∙ Theorists have suggested that children are incapable of understanding the world until they reach a particular stage of cognitive development. ∙ Cognitive development is the process whereby ∙ A child’s understanding of the world changes as a function of age and experience. Theories of cognitive development seek to explain the quantitative and qualitative intellectual abilities that occur during development. ∙ Piaget declared that these stages differ not only in the quantity of information acquired at each, but also in the quality of knowledge and understanding at that stage ∙ Piaget suggested that movement from one stage to the next occurred when the child reached an appropriate level of maturation and was exposed to relevant types of experiences. ∙ Without experience, children were assumed incapable of reaching their highest cognitive ability. ∙ Piaget’s four stages are known as the ∙ Sensorimotor ∙ The sensorimotor stage in a child is from birth to approximately two years. During this stage, a child has relatively little competence in representing the environment using images, language, or symbols. An infant has no awareness of objects or people that are not immediately present at a given moment. Piaget called this a lack of object permanence. Object permanence is the awareness that objects and people continue to exist even if they are out of sight.
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