Stage of Cognitive Development

        When I was first presented with the stages of Piaget's cognitive development, I used my existing knowledge of the words to figure out what the stages meant before I actually knew what the stages were. For example: when I read sensorimotor, I split the word into two words: sensory and motor. By splitting the word I assumed that learning in this stage was done through our senses and movement. When I learned that this was what this stage entailed, it fit right into my existing schema of what this stage was.