For this assignment, I went to see my 8-month-old niece. She is in the stage of sensorimotor behaviour. This could be considered the beginning of the development process. Infants use talents and skills, including seeing, sucking, and grasping. Piaget believed that young children learn best through experimentation or action rather than discourse (Cătălin & Mihai, 2021). Sensorimotor behaviour denotes deliberate activity or object permanence testing. During my visit to my niece, she was frequently suctioning her thumb. It might be accurate to say that she was constantly looking for her mother or a face that was more familiar than mine.
Egocentrism, animism, artificialism, or objective responsibility are examples of preoperational behaviour. Children begin to grow and engage in pretend play throughout the second development stage. They gave life to inanimate objects as part of the game and often focused on exaggerating specific characteristics or perspectives in an argument related to the game. My niece is very attention-seeking and acts egotistically when this attention is not given (she starts crying). Subjective moral judgements or decentration are examples of concrete operational behaviour. Children’s moral development includes learning how to distinguish between right and wrong and using this knowledge to make moral decisions when presented with complex options.
Deductive reasoning, according to Piaget, is part of the finalized stage of intellectual development. Children begin to think abstractly and even use such concepts to solve problems (Cătălin & Mihai, 2021). An imaginary audience is a psychological idea familiar to the teenage stage of human development. It alludes to the idea that friends, relatives, and strangers constantly keep a close eye on a person. I recognize that in my days as a preteen (9-10 years old), I constantly felt that I was over-protected by my parents. I felt the need to distinguish myself as an adult and act accordingly.
A personal fable is a widespread notion among older teens that results from the development of adolescent egocentrism between the ages of 11 and 13. The third and last level of Kohlberg’s moral growth is called the post-conventional level, where people have a significant degree of moral development (Cătălin & Mihai, 2021). At this point, people are concerned with fundamental human rights. According to Erikson’s theory of psychological development, the fifth stage of the ego is identity versus confusion (Cătălin & Mihai, 2021). Between the ages of 12-18, adolescents go through this period. They explore freedom and solidify a sense of self throughout this phase..
Reference
Cătălin, P. C., & Mihai, O. I. (2021). Psychic development of the child: Psychological, hereditary, factors, environment. Proceedings of INTCESS, 2021(8th).