Piaget's theory of Cognitive Development
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- Created on: 20-01-16 09:01
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- Piaget's theory of Cognitive Development
- AO1
- 4 stages
- Concrete Operational stage
- Conservation of mass developed
- 7-11 Years old
- Pre-operational stage
- Egocentric thought still present
- 2-7 Years old
- Formal Operations
- Abstract 'adult' thought
- 11+ Years old
- Sensorimeter stage
- 0-2 Years old
- Object permanence developed
- Concrete Operational stage
- How children learn
- Schema
- Mental structures that hold all information on one topic
- Assimilation
- Incorporation of new information into an existing schema
- Accommodation
- Adapting existing schema to understand the new information
- Equilibration
- Try to keep equilibrium in learning. If new info comes along, it must be assimilated to acheive equilibrium
- Operations
- Logical mental rules
- Schema
- 4 stages
- AO2
- Little support for learning through disequilibrium
- Lack of mundane realism in his experiments
- Hughes
- Made 3 mountains task more realistic
- Child doll hiding from police instead
- Kids coped better and more often chose correct perspective
- Made 3 mountains task more realistic
- Hughes
- Confusing experiments
- Samuel and Bryant
- Found asking vital question only once increased correct answers
- Samuel and Bryant
- Ethnocentric
- All research done in Western Europe
- Focuses on nature not nurture - reductionist
- Dasen (1994)
- Post operational stage 'unrealistic'
- Only 1/3 adults reach it, and not normally in adolescence
- AO1
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