Chapter 6

Sorry for the first blog post wasn’t on the right chapter...

The six stages of sensorimotor intelligence:

1. The first stage is just the basic small movements and being able to basically only survive. My younger brother was born when I was 13 so I was able to watch his different stages of life so I’m somewhat going to relate these to my experiences.

2. During this stage it became relevant that my little brother could separate actions from one thing to another. Watching him eat was different depending on what it was that he was eating.

3. He became more aware of what was going on and I could see him link things together. Being able to associate something with another.

4. He then went on to get further into it by reacting to things with meaning not just the repetition of actions and events such as rolling a ball back and forth with him.

5. This is when I developed a rather disliking to him since he became somewhat of a nuisance. This is when things of mine went missing or became destroyed if I didn't hide them. Such as him going about taking markers to walls or playing with shiny things like CDs.

6. This is when finally I was able to be all right and he having somewhat of a sense of being without destroying things that are whatnot and mine.

These stages are very relevant to what I have seen from my younger brother and how he went from just a newborn to the beginning of his toddler years. The stages seem to be very accurate and it is simply amazing that we can know how infants will be regardless of where and when they hit the certain stages.