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¶ … Birth to 19 Years
Sensory motor period 0 -- 2 years
The child moves from basic, reflexive activity such as sucking and holding to learning how to reach for objects with intention or kicking a mobile to create motion (Stages of intellectual development, 2012, CDI). The baby discovers "new ways to produce the same consequence or obtain the same goal -- such as the infant may pull a pillow toward him in an attempt to get a toy resting on it" (Stages of intellectual development, 2012, CDI). By age two children are capable of running, kicking balls, and building towers of blocks. They are capable of controlling their bowels. Average language vocabulary is around 200 words (Normal stages of human development: Birth to five years, 2012, CDI). By the end of this phase children are capable of sleeping through the night.
Preoperational phase (2-7 years)
From 2-4 years, children can verbally represent objects "but speech is egocentric. The beginnings of symbolic rather than simple motor...
Children begin to develop an individual will and understand their capacity to say 'no.' They learn to color, ride a tricycle thanks to improved balance and motor coordination and begin to understand the differences between the genders (Normal stages of human development: Birth to five years, 2012, CDI).
During the second part of this phase, which is sometimes called the 'intuitive phase,' from 4-7 years, "speech becomes more social, less egocentric. The child has an intuitive grasp of logical concepts in some areas. However, there is still a tendency to focus attention on one aspect of an object while ignoring others. Concepts formed are crude and irreversible. Easy to believe in magical increase, decrease, disappearance" (Stages of intellectual development, 2012, CDI). During this phase children still do not…
References
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Play and developmental stages. (2012). Child Development Institute
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