... 2. During this stage a child develops basic schemas based on their current abilities - sensing and doing. These schemas will therefore be simple actions. Piaget found that a child of this age does not have the abilities to differentiate between itself and the world. This is known as Ego Centrism. A child under 8 months also lacks the understanding of Object Permanence, that an object continues to exist even when it is not visible. Through his studies Piaget discovered that children only search for a hidden toy at 8 months. Between 6 and 7 months a child could only retrieve a partially hidden object, but not a fully hidden object. Piaget asserted the child does not search for the toy because it cannot imagine that it exists, and that a child needs to develop a schema of an object before it can understand Object Permanence. This gives the child the ...

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