Piaget
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- Created on: 13-01-14 14:32
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- Piaget
- 4 Stages
- Sensorimotor
- Birth - 2yrs
- Remember by doing not seeing
- No understanding of object permanence
- Egocentric (No distinction between themselves and others)
- Preoperational
- 2yrs - 7yrs
- Forms mental representations
- The idea relates to the real world object
- Comservation task
- Mountains task
- Concrete operational
- 7yrs - 11yrs
- Can perform operations (Mental actions)
- The action must be performed first
- Formal operational
- 11yrs +
- Abstract, unbiased and hypothetical thinking
- The movement to each stage is an accommodation event
- Changing the way info is stored
- The way you think in each stage is fundamentally different
- Sensorimotor
- General
- Born without knowledge, which must be learnt
- Motivated to understand
- Most learning is physical
- Info is processed in a coherent (logical/consistent) way
- Development is domain-general (Interdependent learning)
- Distinct stages that are discontinuous
- 3 Learning Mechanisms
- Assimilation
- Adding new info taken from the world (Observation)
- Incompatible knowledge (When what's in the mind and what's in the world does not match) Causes the modal to fail, leading to reflection
- Accommodation
- Recognises info in the head (Reflection)
- Equilibration
- Balances the 2 mechanisms
- Assimilation
- Criticisms
- Only description, no explanation
- Ignores early abilities
- Ignores social nature
- 4 Stages
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