cognition and development -piaget theory

Question 1

what did Piaget see children as being?

Answer 1

.he saw children as being scientists

Question 2

what did Piaget believe about how children learn?

Answer 2

.children learn by discovery and trail and error

Question 3

what did Piaget believe the adults role is?

Answer 3

.adults role is to set up the situations for where the children can learn

Question 4

what did Piaget believe about children?

Answer 4

.it’s not that children know less than adults they just think in a different way

Question 5

what role does experience play?

Answer 5

.experience determines what children know -schema development

Question 6

what is maturation?

Answer 6

.maturation is what causes changes in the way children think

Question 7

what is meant by schema?

Answer 7

.unit of knowledge/mental representations of all the information we have about one aspect of the world

Question 8

what did Piaget believe motivates children to learn?

Answer 8

.believes children are .motivated to learn when their existing schema does not allow them to make sense of something new
.this leads to an unpleasant feeling of cognitive imbalance

Question 9

what is the word for when children experience an unpleasant feeling when existing schema doesn’t match new information?

Answer 9

.disequilibrium

Question 10

what do children want to achieve when they are in disequilibrium?

Answer 10

.they want to achieve equilibrium

Question 11

what else is equilibrium known by?

Answer 11

.cognitive balance

Question 12

how do children achieve equilibrium from disequilibrium?

Answer 12

.equilibration

Question 13

what did Piaget believe about how learning takes place?

Answer 13

.he believed learning takes place by
.assimilation
.accommodation

Question 14

what is assimilation?

Answer 14

.adding new information to existing schema (similar information)

Question 15

what is accommodation?

Answer 15

.radically change schema or create a completely new schema

Question 16

who conducted the study to support Piaget’s theory?

Answer 16

.howe et al

Question 17

what was the procedure to howe et al’s study?

Answer 17

.children ages 9-12 were placed in a group of 4
.studied and discussed objects moving down a slope
.their understanding was assessed before and after the discussion

Question 18

what were the findings to howe et al’s study?

Answer 18

.afterwards they came to different conclusions

Question 19

how does howe et al study support piagets theory?

Answer 19

.shows that Piaget is therefore right that children form their own personal mental representations

Question 20

what was a negative to Paige’s theory?

Answer 20

.paiget underplayed the role of others in learning, vygototsky proposed that children learn largely from other people in a social process enabling them to learn more complex ideas -this is ignored by paiget