sensor motor development
...third time that he repeated game A he found the phone and then handed it to me as though he was now going to be the experimenter and I was playing the game. This showed accommodation due to the fact that he was looking at the situation in a different way and applying a new way of thinking by then giving the toy to me so he could be in control. After trying several times to conduct game B with him not wanting the phone and wiggling around while he kept rubbing his eyes, I realized that he was just too tiered and not up for continuing. So the next day I tried a second time and started with game B. Moving the phone from one cloth to another confused him to an extent but he stilled showed object permanence by looking in the hiding place from the previous game. First he looked under cloth A and then a couple of seconds later went to cloth B. Signs of assimilation were he knew to look for toy by using his old method/scheme to look for the phone. The final repeat of game B he reached only for cloth B. Accommodation was present because by the third try he had changed his thinking through experience to look under the last place he saw it, which was the second cloth. Lastly his object permanence in game C continues to evolve he was never able to think far enough ahead to look in the right place although he didn’t see the object hidden there, even if not right away. After moving the small animal from one cloth to the next without him seeing it he pulled away the first cloth and then the second without grabbing the toy, he did this the first two times. His assimilation was that he knew from previous experience that the toy was there and he just had to look for it. He was able to accommodate once more by pulling only the second cloth back to reveal the toy on the third try. Juan Diego showed he possessed object permanence with the sub-stage of coordination of secondary schemes, in that he knew from previous experience to look for the object he could no longer see. He also used the sub-stage of tertiary circular reactions by experimenting through trial and error, and looking in the hiding place from the previous game. With the third game he even showed some signs of using the sixth sub-stage, mental combinations. The average age is eighteen to twenty four months so Juan Diego according to Piaget is developing much faster than normal. After interviewing Juan Diego I was able to interview another baby, Lauren a few weeks later. Lauren was a sweet little girl, and unlike Juan Diego was at the other end of the cut off at fourteen months. She was obviously a fourteen month old baby girl that weighed twenty pounds and was thirty inches long. I didn’t notice any distinguishing physical features other than that she had brown eyes, blonde hair, was a light skinned Caucasian, and seemed so be on the small side, especially in comparison to the previous baby. I had never met Lauren before the day of the interview and she was very shy and uneasy having new people around. Some might say that she is “slow-to-warm-up”, mild temperament but hesitant about accepting new experiences. She seemed almost scared to play any of the games even cried after her mother tried to make her stay at the table with me. Her mother said that this was normal behavior for her with any new person. She had mastered almost all of her motor skills and was able to grasp things very well, and could even stand and walk with confidence. As far as her language skills went she could say up to 10 words and was able to distinguish animal noises that she made for me, but still could not make full sentences. Unlike most babies Lauren had learned how to sign words from her school. She was able to sign the words more, please, yes, no, and done. According to the father these signs have really helped them in understanding her. Her mother had told me that she was very shy, so I thought it would be best to do the interview in Lauren’s house so she would feel more comfortable. Once again I chose to sit at the kitchen table with the mother holding her, and me sitting across from them. After asking Laurens mother I discovered that she too liked cell phones, and decided to use my phone again and a Polly pocket doll of her sisters she enjoyed playing with. This time I had to use paper towels for the cloths for lack of anything better, and we began the three game process. Lauren was still very uneasy even looking at me after I had spent about ten minutes around her, and wouldn’t even grab for the object that I was offering her. She was even crawling up on her mom in hopes that the situation would stop. After ten minutes of trying to get Lauren to work with me I decided to do something different. I asked her sister who was nine years old and plays with Lauren often to maybe do the experiment, while I told her what to do. So as I watched Lauren was able to do everything just fine with little or no hesitation. She was still a little uneasy to start and would only point to the cloth when asked “where is the phone” the first two times. She showed her assimilation and pre-existing schemes of object permanence because she knew where it was and that it was only hidden, not gone, but for whatever reason wouldn’t look for it. The last time she attempted game A she finally realized we wanted her to find the phone instead of pointing. She accommodated the game by using a different approach and looking for what she new was there. By this point I think Lauren felt okay about the situation and was ready to do what she felt. The first time her sister put the phone under cloth A and then under cloth B Lauren went to the first cloth using assimilation from the previous game to look for the object the same as before, and then found it under the second cloth. She again used accommodation in game B when her sister did the process a second time she hesitated and looked only under cloth B. She was able to change her way of looking at the present environment and go right to the...