1.

Modification of reflexes

2. Primary circular reactions

3. Secondary circular reactions

4. Coordination of secondary circular

reactions

Birth to 1 month
Congenitally organized behaviors:
crying, sucking, looking (these become
more organized)
Orienting reflex
A baby does not think or know
1-4 months
Reactionsmotor schemes, sensory
schemes
Circularpleasurable, repetition,
pleasure, repetition
Primaryfirst to appear in time
Not deliberate or intentional!
Focus on babys body!
Simple motor habits centered around
infants own body; limited anticipation of
events
Only accommodation
4-8 months
Reactionsmotor schemes, sensory
schemes
Circularpleasure, repetition, pleasure,
repetition
Secondarysecond to appear in time
Appear after coordination of primary
circular reactions
Involve objects external to babys body
NOT deliberate: no understanding of
cause-effect
8-12 months
Intentional responding: some
understanding of cause-effect
A not B error(parrot and blanket
error)preservation error
Persevering in presence of contradictory
info
Major part; some intention and
purposeness appears
Only things in the sensory tableau
Coordination and integration of pulling
(or lifting) and looking
Object permanence
o Child younger than 9 months
lacks this
Object concept
o Temporal contiguity- things

5. Tertiary circular reactions

6. Coordination of tertiary circular

reactions/beginnings of representational
thought

continue to exist over time

o Spatial contiguity- space is
continuous
o Substance characteristic- two
objects cant occupy the same
space at the same time
Little scientist
12-18 months
Deliberateness; goals
Varies objects; varies actions
Recognition memory
Dependent on sensory tableau to
activate scheme
Child still repeating behavior but
deliberately doing so
Recognition memory recognizing
something that is familiar (only requires
sensory tableau)
Recall memory calling up memory
not in sensory tableau
No recall; not internally motivated
18-24 months
Begin to internalize behavioral schemes
to construct mental symbols
Mental representations words
True retrieval (recall)
Can activate schemes voluntarily
NOT dependent on sensory tableau
One of the most important stages we go
through
Symbolic play and thinking emerge
Beginning of true mental life!