Furthermore why are they into everything, and what does banging on a table and constantly dropping items accomplish other than giving headaches. Piaget’s sensorimotor period assisted me in understanding my uncertainties. I realized the importance in banging, and how the constant curiosity to explore are a good and essential part of their development. This theory and period provides one with a better understanding of their growth cognitively and physically during the infancy/toddler years.
Piaget’s cognitive development theory claims that our cognitive growth stems from motor behavior. The theory presents four discrete stages in a set sequence from infancy to adolescents. The order is as followed: sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational and formal operational. The escalation from one stage to another requires a certain degree of bodily growth and explorations. The theory also explains that kids ‘quality’ of comprehension grows and changes throughout the stages. “Piaget believed that the basic building blocks of the way we understand the world are mental structures