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During the first year of life, children engage into exploratory behaviors in order to become familiar to and learn about the surrounding world.
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During their first year of life, children engage mainly, in what Jean Piaget called sensorimotor play or practice play (Piaget 1962). This consists mainly of already experienced, sensory and motor activities, which are repeated for the absolute pleasure of doing so (Hughes 2010) and thus considered as “playful” behavior. Piaget (1962) suggested that this form of play is integral for the child’s intellectual development and that the young child moves through a number of different substages of sensorimotor progression. In this section, we will explain the different stages of cognitive development as well as how the newborn child moves through the period of sensorimotor play to acquire the skills and abilities to think on their own.
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Christodoulou, N., Anastassiou-Hadjicharalambous, X. (2018). Newborn Behavior. In: Shackelford, T., Weekes-Shackelford, V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_1072-1
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