Stage 1: Sensorimotor Stage

Question 1

What is the sensorimotor stage about

Answer 1

The focus of coordination of sensory and motor info

Question 2

What is object permenance

Answer 2

The ability to realise an object still exists when it is outside of one’s visual field

Question 3

What is the research evidence to support object permenance

Answer 3

Hiding an object a child has been attending to underneath a blanket

Question 4

What are the results of the research for children under 8 months

Answer 4

They will not search for the object and will become premeditated with new things

Question 5

What are the results of the research for children over 8 months

Answer 5

They will search for the object, but only in places they have seen it before

Question 6

What is the counter research for hiding an object under a blanket

Answer 6

Bower & Wishart

Question 7

What does Bower & Wishart critisise about the initial study

Answer 7

Piaget underestimates the cognitive ability of infants as when methodology was altered, object permanence was displayed in infants between 1 and 4 months