1) Sensorimotor Stage
This is the stage in which infants construct an understanding of the world by coordinating sensory experiences. From birth to 1 month, the infant develops coordination of sensation and action through reflexive behaviors. An example of this progress is rooting, sucking and grasping reflexes as newborns usually suck reflexively when their lips are touched. From 1 to 4 months, infants discover the body through testing reflexes and adapting the reflexes to the environment. For instance, three-month-old niece mistakenly tapped her forehead and she immediately tried to repeat it although the second time was not as the first time. From 4 to 8 months, infants become more object-oriented and move beyond self-preoccupation and they usually repeat actions that convey interesting or enjoyable results. For instance, an infant babble to make a person stay near and if the infant notices the person leaving then they babble again since he/she knows that it makes the person to stay near. From 8 to 12 months, infants begin to have coordination of vision and touch and during this progress, infants combine and recombine previously learned schemes in a coordinated way. For example, infants …show more content…
Children in this stage develop the ability to think logically about concrete events, but must use abstract thinking in a sophisticated way about non-concrete events. This stage basically describes a logical thinking frameworks as it marks a critical period for children in building skills for intellectual operations, which includes deductive thinking that is the intellectual method of taking the parts of something to create an overall idea. During this stage, Children have the ability to classify or divide things into different set or subsets and to consider their relationships. Also, children are capable of seriation which is the ability to order stimuli along a quantitative