Freud's Stages Of Development Compare And Contrast
The next stages that will be compared and contrasted in this essay are the sensorimotor stage (Piaget) and oral stage by Freud. These two stages are quite similar to each other and can be defined in similar senses.
The two stages lie between zero to two years (infant) who has little knowledge and is dependent on a carer, mainly the mother. Piaget and Freud both mention similar points of an infant during their first stages; Freud mentions the infant will be discovering relationships between their bodies and the environment however Piaget mostly relates this stage to the environment; in order for infants to learn they will observe there environment and begin to explore and then experiment. Infants will do this by putting objects in their mouths at this first stage along with grasping objects around them. Infants in the sensorimotor stage will also go through object permanence and by 18months this is fully developed, object permanence is the ability for them to understand that an object continues to exist when it can’t be seen, touched or heard. (Blog.intellidance.ca, 2017) The criticisms of this …show more content…
Assimilation, occurs when the environment is altered to fit an existing schema for example, the infant using its sucking reflexes also correlates with assimilation as the infant will now be able to use the same sucking reflex to acquire information about other objects that are sucked on, such as the infant’s thumb. Then after, when the schema needs to be changed to fit with the environment, the second process of accommodation occurs .For example, if the infant tries to suck on her fist, she needs to change the shape of her mouth to accommodate the larger size of the fist; the schema has now been changed to accommodate the first. ("Piaget's Cognitive Schemas Describe the Development of
The two stages lie between zero to two years (infant) who has little knowledge and is dependent on a carer, mainly the mother. Piaget and Freud both mention similar points of an infant during their first stages; Freud mentions the infant will be discovering relationships between their bodies and the environment however Piaget mostly relates this stage to the environment; in order for infants to learn they will observe there environment and begin to explore and then experiment. Infants will do this by putting objects in their mouths at this first stage along with grasping objects around them. Infants in the sensorimotor stage will also go through object permanence and by 18months this is fully developed, object permanence is the ability for them to understand that an object continues to exist when it can’t be seen, touched or heard. (Blog.intellidance.ca, 2017) The criticisms of this …show more content…
Assimilation, occurs when the environment is altered to fit an existing schema for example, the infant using its sucking reflexes also correlates with assimilation as the infant will now be able to use the same sucking reflex to acquire information about other objects that are sucked on, such as the infant’s thumb. Then after, when the schema needs to be changed to fit with the environment, the second process of accommodation occurs .For example, if the infant tries to suck on her fist, she needs to change the shape of her mouth to accommodate the larger size of the fist; the schema has now been changed to accommodate the first. ("Piaget's Cognitive Schemas Describe the Development of