sensorimotor

(adjective)

Of or pertaining to both sensory and motor activity.

Related Terms

Examples of sensorimotor in the following topics:

  • Defining Thoughts

    • Sensorimotor Stage.
    • Thought evolves from being based on perceptions and actions at the sensorimotor stage in the first two years of life, to internal representations in early childhood.

  • Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Development

    • Piaget's four stages correspond with the age of the children and are the sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational stages.
    • The sensorimotor stage occurs from birth to age 2.
    • Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development includes four stages: sensorimotor, pre-operational, concrete operational, and formal operational.

  • Cognitive Development in Adolescence

    • Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development includes four stages: sensorimotor, pre-operational, concrete operational, and formal operational.

  • Lower-Level Structures

    • to enable sensorimotor functions to control posture and other fundamental movements.