There were a few things that I found interesting in this chapter. The first was Piaget's theory about developement. He proposed that there were four stages of developement through the lifetime: sonsorimotor- from birth to age two, preoperational- from ages two to six or seven, concrete operational- from ages about seven to eleven, and formal operational- from about twelve through adult hood.
Another thing that interested me in this chapter was the expirament with the babies and mobiles. Babies can obviously learn, they learn to crawl, walk, talk... but I thought these things were just developed over time, not really tought. This expirament was interesting because it showed that not everything in infancy is developed, and babies can remember things.
Lastly I found it interesting that babies like looking in mirrors at age 6 months, but they don't actually recognize that it is themselves until 18 months. However, this confuses me because I have babysat little kids -younger than 18 months- who looked in the mirror and seemed to know it was themselves. I guess there is no way to prove that they did know it was them, because they couldn't talk yet, but their reaction when I asked 'who is that?' seemed to show they did know it was themselves.
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