Piaget's Habituation Analysis

The purpose of this paper is to use the habituation technique in young infants to evaluate one hypothesis derived from Piaget’s theory of cognitive development. I will compare 5-month olds in a task that involves possible and impossible outcomes. Piaget’s theory specifies the cognitive competencies of children of this age.(1a) Children in the sensorimotor stage experience the world as where the child has no understanding of the world other than their own current point of view. The main development during this stage is the understanding that objects exist and events occur in the world independently of one’s own actions. This is known as object permanence, (1b) which means knowing that an object still exists, even if it is hidden. According …show more content…
Piaget suggest that there is six stages in which it all comes together and develops, such as the Reflexes, primary circular reaction, secondary circular, co-ordinating secondary schemes, tertiary circular reaction, and symbolic thought. This occurs in children throughout these stages that way they form a mental representation of the object. (1c) Stranger anxiety is a form of distress that children experience when exposed to people unfamiliar to them. According to Piaget, stranger anxiety emerges during 8-9 months of the infant age. One might think that object permanent and stranger anxiety emerges at the same time because as infant they start to recognize object and people. (1d) the rouge test is a test that identifies a human child ability to recognize their reflection in a mirror. A child will touch his/her nose around when object permanence emerges because they are able to recognize themselves and realize that there is a red dot on their nose when that is not usually on their …show more content…
The results bear strongly on the experimental hypothesis. (4a)The experimental hypothesis would be that infant would not be able to know whether or not an object was removed or if the screen was dropped because they would due to the lack of understanding that the object was removed. (4b) an outcome for this experiment that supports the hypothesis is that infants did not dishabituation to either outcomes, which supports Piaget’s theory. They have a basic understanding of basic numbers and were able to track them the number of objects behind the screen. (4c) an actual outcome for this experiment is infants stare longer at the impossible situation. (4d) the results of the experiment were consistent to Piaget hypothesis because the results proved that infants lack object

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