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Cognitive Development List the six specific stages of Sensorimotor Cognitive Development that infants and toddlers move through. For each stage provide a simple activity that coordinates with their cognitive development. How important are theses stages in a child's young life?
As an early childhood educator, your work is child's play. Summarize what this means? How important is it for a child to play?

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Cognitive Development/ The Value of Play:

The cognitive development of the six specific stages of sensorimotor cognitive development. However, your focus in on the first stage of cognitive development which has six sub-areas.

First Stage: Sensorimotor stage (from birth to two years old- from Piaget's cognitive development theory; object permanence- is the greatest learning development aspect of this stage where the child on object existing even thought they cannot see them)

The sensorimotor ...

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