Accoring to Piaget there are four stages of Cognitive Development. The first stage is Sensorimotor, which is birth to 2 years old. The second is Preoperational, which is 2 to 7 years old. The third is Concrete Operational, which is 7 to 12 years old. The last one is Formal Operational, which is 12 years old to adulthood. Throughout this paper I will discuss these stages and give examples from my own life.
The first stage is sensorimotor. This occurs from birth to age 2. This is where the infant uses only their senses and motor abilities to adapt to the world surrounding them. In the beginning, they only have the involuntary reflexes to interact with objects and people. For example, I remember when my nephew was born and I went to his house when he was only 2 weeks old and he was able to grab a hold of my finger and start sucking on it. This shows the simple reflex of grasping and sucking which occurs from birth to 2 months. As this stage progresses the infant's senses......
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