Piaget's Sensorimotor Stage Of Cognitive Development

A Miracle Baby’s Story
SC is a four-month-old Caucasian male who lives with his mother, father, and half-brother in Dothan, Alabama. His parents are happily married, and they have a beautiful home located within city limits in a friendly neighborhood. His mother has a full-time job as the Director of Human Resources at an inpatient rehabilitation hospital. After SC’s birth, she took a twelve-week maternity leave to adjust and establish a close bond with him. His father works full-time as a Manager of Laboratory Services at an acute care hospital. During his wife’s maternity leave, he continued to work and provide financial support for his new family. He also has a ten-year-old half-brother, paternally, that is from a previous relationship.

SC is four months of age which is including in this stage that occurs between birth and two years. According to Piaget, at birth infants know so little that they cannot explore purposefully. The circular reaction provides a special means of adapting their first schemes. …the infant tries to repeat the event again and again, a sensorimotor response that originally occurred by chance strengthens into a new scheme (Berk, L. & Meyers, A., 2016). At the beginning, circular reactions concentrate on the child’s own body and later expanding to operation of objects. SC’s mother indicated that she has seen newborn reflexes of the first sensorimotor substage (birth to 1 month) when interacting with him. He has demonstrated the rooting reflex which is caused by stroking the cheek near the opening of the mouth. Also, he presented the stepping reflex when his mother holds him under the arms allowing his feet to create a stepping motion. At his age, his mother noticed that he would bring his foot to his mouth, thus indicating a primary circular reaction in the second sensorimotor substage (1 to 4 months). He has displayed some transition from primary to secondary circular reactions (4 to 8 months) because he has learned to imitate his mother sticking out her tongue while playing with him. He will continually follow this stage as he explores the

Infertility is caused by a physical abnormality that can occur in males and females and increases in older ages. SC’s mother was presented with fertility issues when she and her husband began to conceive a baby. She went through numerous fertility drugs and five different procedures one of them being In Vitro Fertilization. In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) is a process where an egg from the female is fertilized outside the body with the male’s sperm. In SC’s case, he was one of three eggs that was fertilized and transferred back into the uterus. During this time, SC’s mother was very emotional because she was told that the embryos only had a 10% chance of survival. When she received the news about being pregnant, she began calling him her “little miracle.” She has showed concerns about how this procedure will affect his physical, emotional, and cognitive development in the future. Mothers who conceived through assisted reproduction expressed greater warmth towards their child and reported that they were more emotionally involved and interacted more with their child than mothers who had conceived naturally (Gibson, F. L., & Ungerer, J. A., 2000). As the interviewer, I could tell there was a strong emotional attachment between the child and his mother. According to a study on the mother-child relationship, there were concerns raised about the potential for