Watch and learn! Carefully selected media links will help bring key concepts and theories to life, preparing you for your studies and exams. 

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Video Links

• Piaget - Stage 1 - Sensorimotor, Object Permanence
  One of a series of videos showing infants engaging in Piaget tasks. This one gives a cute example of A-not-B behavior.

Audio Links

• Babies and Dogs Make the Same Classic Mistake.
  All Things Considered reports how a common infant error, thought by Piaget to represent a failure to understand “object permanence,” is also seen in dogs (but not in wolves raised by humans). Social interaction with other people affects how babies, and dogs, perceive the situation.

• Smoking, Alcohol Pose Unique Risks for Teens.
  This Morning Edition report explores how smoking and alcohol use may interfere with healthy brain development, particularly in the area of impulse control and decision making.

• Research Highlights Strengths of Adolescent Brain.
  A Morning Edition report highlights how teenaged brains may be getting a bad rap, and may be more dynamic than we believe.

Web Resources

• The Jean Piaget Society
  The home page of the Jean Piaget Society.
  Follow-up exercise: The link to the DVD series on Piaget’s work has a nice, almost 4 minute preview that shows children working on Piaget tasks.

• Piaget’s Life
  Biographical information on Piaget; thorough and interesting.
  Follow-up exercise: Ask students to read the information and then speculate on what aspects of Piaget’s early life led to his interest in cognitive development.

• Sensorimotor stage
  This “Simply Psychology” page includes summaries of sensorimotor tasks, pictures, and a video of a child in the sensorimotor stage.
  Follow-up exercise: Ask students to explore the related articles on Piaget’s theory and the other stages of development.