Sensorimotor is part in the early stages of cognitive development of Piaget's theory, this stage occurred since the child is born (0 +) up to 2 years, in these cognitive abilities, is still very limited. Piaget gives a term with capabilities that are primitive, that is still based on the behaviors that are open. Cognitive ability or intelligence possessed child in this period is the basic intelligence that really count and determining for further cognitive development.

Intelligence from the sensorimotor stage is also called practical intelligence. because at this age children just learning how to follow the material in a practical world and learn how to create certain effects without understanding what he is doing but just looking for a way to do actions were.

The ability of children in the language during this period not appeared. Interaction with environment through the movements, touching, moving, and etc. Everything that do ??by child with her ??body movements it is an experiment to environment. Through a process of interaction with environment sooner or later the child will learn about how control their environment better.

There are two important terms in the stages of cognitive development, Jean Piaget: figurative scheme  and operative schemes, figurative scheme is a scheme which contains the characteristics of objects, colors, shapes. While the operative scheme is a scheme that can not be seen directly through the object, but must go through the process of thinking, such as name, number, large and small.

In the sensorimotor stage, according with developments in the process of interaction in the environment the child will face challenges to retrieve or receive information from outside, then he compile that information so that when he would interact more with environment, he can use that information, and thus so on. So finally the process of interaction with environment becomes better and more meaningful. From the interaction of children gain physical experience and mental experience. Jean Piaget (1896-1980) believed that the origin of the growing mental structure is the action. That means that if a child see, feel, or move some things, then he'll force his brain to build a program - a program to control or handle it mentally estimated the better experiences - experiences of children, it will be better the child's of intellectual development.

 

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