Piaget on human development
- Created by: Meg Fraser
- Created on: 28-12-16 14:33
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- Piaget
- Children have active role in own development
- Innate motivation to learn without rewards
- Discontinuous development in four sequential stages
- Sensorimotor
- Preoperational
- Concrete operational
- Formal operational
- Accepts that the brain goes through maturation before each stage - discontinuous relies on continuous
- Precursors of thinking and language lie in the actions, perceptions and imitations of babies
- Developmentprecedes learning
- Intelligence arises from baby's repetitive activities
- Past experience is organised into schemas to understand the world
- Nature provides body and brain but nurture provides all the stimulation they require
- Children have active role in own development
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