Assignment 5

Piaget’s theory has six initial stages for infant development. During stages 3 and 4 infants start interacting with people, their parents in particular. During this stage babies learn how to elicit a response from the parent. Because Piaget focuses mainly on environment and surroundings, it is easy to see that parents have a big impact on the way their children. Children not only learn from trial and error, but are taught by their parents. Here we see why researchers are concerned. Many parents, most actually, today want their children to be above average. Many parents try to increase the cognitive development of their child by early learning strategies and certain types of music. This could be seen as placing too much pressure or strain on the infant. I think its just important to see that all children develop differently. It doesn’t matter what the parents want, its about the development of their individual child.