Jean Piaget's Sensorimotor Stage

Sarah Willes
El Ed 323
Dr. Feinuaer
Theorist Research Paper
Jean Piaget
Jean Piaget was a psychologist that studied a lot about the development of children. He was fascinated in how the brain develops, and how a child, mentally and physically, changes as they get older. He believed that children develop in stages. These stages are the sensorimotor stage, the preoperational stage, the concrete operational stage, and the formal operational stage. He also believed in schemas and their critical role not only in a child’s development but also in the life of an adult.
Sensorimotor Stage The sensorimotor stage is from birth to two years of age. During these two years, children learn through grasping, looking, and listening. They learn a lot through

Content schema comes into effects when a reader has prior knowledge about the topic of a text they are currently reading. Formal schema is the awareness of the structure of the text, and language schema, which has been previously mentioned, is the knowledge of the vocabulary and relationships of the words in a text. A reader’s comprehension of a text depends a lot of their schemata. If a reader already has schemas that include familiar words or concepts they will be able to understand the literacy they are reading so much

The schema theory explains exactly what each person goes through mentally as they develop and begin to analyze the world around them. I love that the theory focuses more on the way that children change their views mentally. As they progress from stage to stage, Piaget thoroughly explained and could prove with examples exactly how children mature in their thinking and how their ability to make schemas expands. It doesn’t leave anything critical out. As I was studying and reading about Piaget and his theories all of them made sense. They all seemed logical and connected to each other. In my opinion Piaget’s theory is the most important and accurate because it touches on the physical development of children and their mental development and how they connect. For example, the sucking reflex and the schema the infant creates. It ties something physical that the infant’s body does to a mental state and explains why it mentally influences the infant as