A2: Criticism of Piaget Flashcards
1
Q
Piaget only observed…
A
- a small number of children
2
Q
The stages may have been…
A
- more fluid than Piaget suggests
3
Q
What might Piaget have done with children’s cognitive abilities?
A
- underestimated or underestimated
eg
- children aged 5 playing often show that they do understand other’s feelings, and are far less egocentric than Piaget suggested
4
Q
What did Piaget overestimate or underestimate?
A
- children’s cognitive abilities
eg
- children aged 5 playing often show that they do understand other’s feelings, and are far less egocentric than Piaget suggested
5
Q
Who didn’t agree with Piaget’s fixed stages?
A
- Bruner
6
Q
What did Bruner not agree with?
A
- Piaget’s fixed stages
7
Q
What does Bruner believe?
A
- that with adult support, children can be helped to progress to higher level thinking skills
- an individual’s ability to use formal logical thought may be dependant on how much encouragement they’ve been given to think logically
8
Q
Other research suggests children take longer than 11 years to…
A
- to become skilled in abstract logical thinking
9
Q
Cognitive development might not be…
A
- part of the maturation process
- this could depend on a child’s environment and the quality of their formal and informal education
