The first stage of cognitive development is the sensorimotor stage. The sensorimotor stage occurs in children from birth until the age of two. It is the earliest stage of cognitive growth and is broken down into six stages. After Sensorimotor stage occurs the child goes …show more content…
I also asked them simple questions to see how each answer differed depending on their age and cognitive development. One student was at the age of five in kindergarten and the other was at the age of ten in fifth grade. One of the experiments I used was the theory of centration with rows of paper. Centration is the understanding that what you see is what you think (Feldman, 173). The object of your concentration is the only thing that matters and you choose to ignore everything else. It is usually found in preschoolers. In the experiment using centration I aligned five pieces of paper in two rows each row having the same amount of pieces to begin with. After letting the