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Piaget Stages of Development

Question 1

Child development undergoes various stages from infancy to adulthood This process of development is called by various psychologists as progression through development ' to which , age is often on each developmental stage . The first stage is called the infancy stage which is from birth to one year during which the physical and psychological occur most rapidly . In Piaget 's developmental theory , the child 's development during this stage is called sensorimotor ' because the child 's behavior at this stage is mostly simple motor responses to

sensory stimuli (Kalat 170 . The stage of toddlerhood which is from one year to three years old is partly connected with infancy stage because as Olga Drebben asserts , in these early childhood stages , the infants and toddler 's growth and development include very multifaceted processes of physical , cognitive , and psychosocial transformations Drebben affirms that the primary modes of infant and toddler are sonsorimotor

The childhood stage or as Piaget calls it , the preoperational stage of development ' is the stage in which children are subject to externally imposed rules and adhere unquestioningly to rules and the directives of powerful adults . In this stage , peer relationship is an important factor towards constructing a self separate from others and towards developing the capacity to think in terms of other peoples ' attitude one self Deutsch , Coleman and Marcus stated , Equal peer relationships give children a chance to experience reciprocity which greatly assists them in perspective taking and problem solving (Deutsch , Coleman , and Marcus...