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Why is the first year of life termed the sensorimotor stage?


Eating a proper diet ensures proper physical development.

Using senses and gross motor skills is critical to cognitive development.

Crying teaches infants emotional behavior.

Playing with toys teaches babies how to have fun.

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Using senses and gross motor skills is critical to cognitive development.

Piaget’s sensorimotor stage (birth to ~2 years) describes how infants learn about the world primarily through sensory experiences and motor actions (e.g., grasping, sucking, crawling), building basic concepts like object permanence. The other options describe nutrition, emotional signaling, or play for fun, which are not the defining feature of this stage.