Piaget's Argumentative Analysis

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For the duration of the sensorimotor stage, children’s thoughts are for the most part realized throughout their perceptions of the world and their bodily contact with it (Morris & Maisto, 2010). Their psychological representation is extremely inadequate. For instance, Piaget (1954) illustrated that is baby is playing with an object and their mother takes the object away and places it out of view, the baby would not make any attempt to repose it or display any distress. Piaget claimed that “infants less than 9 months have not developed object permanence, the concept that objects still exist when out of sight” (Morris & Maisto, 2010). For the duration of the preoperational stage, according to Piaget, “children show a wide variety of symbolic-representation