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Jean Piaget's Cognitive Development Theory: Text Book Research Assignment
Research and provide an written report on the following as it relates to Piaget's Cognitive Development. All answers must follow the college's policy on plagiarism.
1. Describe Jean Piaget's sensorimotor period of cognitive development.
2. How do sensory and motor activities interact in the development of cognitive skills, according to Piaget?
3. Describe the typical behaviors of a one-week-old infant and a two-month-old infant. Are their behaviors purposeful? Discuss differences in their behaviors with regard to Piaget's concept of the circular reaction.
4. Describe the behaviors of a six-week-old infant and a five-month-old infant. Do their behaviors illustrate primary or secondary circular reactions? Why?
5. What age of an infant would illustrate Piaget's concept of the coordination of secondary schemes?
6. What age of an infant illustrates a tertiary circular reaction? Describe the infant's behavior. Approximately how old is this infant?
7. Outline the development of object permanence by describing the behaviors of a two-month-old infant, a six-month-old infant, and an eighteen-month-old infant with respect to hidden objects.
8. What do their behaviors indicate regarding their mental representation abilities? Which of them has developed object permanence?