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Jean Piaget is one of the most famous theorists in developmental psychology

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Jean Piaget is one of the most famous theorists in developmental psychology. Piaget suggested that children are biologically prepared to develop increasing cognitive capacities through a process of maturation. As children mature, they go through qualitatively different stages of cognitive development, with each representing distinct skills and abilities for any given age. During Infancy and Toddlerhood, Piaget suggested that infants and toddlers are in the Sensorimotor stage of development, whereby much of their cognitive understanding comes by way of their senses and motor, or movement, interacting within their environment. Those interactions produce cognitive understanding that continues to expand as children progress through the vartious stages of Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development. Piaget broke the Sensorimotor Stage into six substages as follows:

Please pick a picture for each of the six substages, which accurately represents the main features of substage. Additionally, you need to provide an explanation describing in your own words each of Piaget's sensorimotor substages in sequence and how the picture illustrates each stage.