17: Piaget

Question 1

What is genetic epistemology?

Answer 1

Understanding the human mind and it’s capacity for knowledge by studying the means by which children go from lower to higher levels of knowledge

Biological emergence of knowledge

Question 2

What are the two ways we fit new information into our schemas?

Answer 2

Assimilation: Information is fit into a pre-exsisting schema

Accomodation: New information leads to the revision of a pre-exsisting schema or the creation of a new one

Question 3

What are the stages of development?

Answer 3

Sensorimotor stage (0-2)

Preoperational stage (2-7)

Concrete operations (7-11)

Formal operations (12+)

Question 4

At what stage do children aquire object permenance?

Answer 4

Preoperational stage

Question 5

At what stage are children able to have abstract thoughts?

Answer 5

Formal operations

Question 6

What were Kohlberg’s stages?

Answer 6

Pre-conventional
Conventional
Post-conventional

Question 7

Who critisized Kohlberg’s theory?

Answer 7

Gilligan: Masculine logic
Haidt: Diverse moral foundations

Question 8

What is the main critique of Piaget’s theory?

Answer 8

Children are less egocentric than he thought