Piaget’s theory of human cognitive development was applied to three gorillas at the Oklahoma City Zoo by operationalizing sensorimotor intelligence. The gorillas were of different ages, ranging from ...

Jean Piaget (1896-1980) always considered himself a natural scientist, not a psychologist. As a boy he quickly gave up play and pretend to take refuge in "work" -- exploring internal combustion ...

Previous research by Bates and her colleagues (1979) has demonstrated that a specific profile of correlations or a local homology is characteristic of the development of sensorimotor and early ...

The physical development of kids is easy to track. You can measure their height, weight, strength and ability to control their bodies. What is complex is to determine cognitive and intellectual ...

"Songbird data yields new theory for learning sensorimotor skills." ScienceDaily. www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2018 / 10 / 181001130354.htm (accessed August 4, 2025).

Songbirds learn to sing in a way similar to how humans learn to speak — by listening to their fathers and trying to duplicate the sounds. The bird’s brain sends commands to the vocal muscles to sing ...