Question

Choose all correct answers: beth normally breast-feeds her baby; however, during the workday beth's mother watches her baby, and the baby must be fed with a bottle. Beth has noticed that her baby's approach to being bottle-fed is somewhat different than when the baby is being breast-fed. Piaget would say that this is an example of

Answer 1

Piaget would say that this is an example of sub-stage 1 (simple reflexes) of the sensorimotor stage.

The sensorimotor stage is the first stage in Piaget's theory of cognitive development. Piaget described this stage as a period of immense growth and change. The sub-stage 1 of sensorimotor lasts from birth to 1 month. During this sub-stage, the child involuntarily responds to inborn stimuli such as sucking and looking and do not try to locate objects that vanish from sight.