Evaluate Piaget’s stages of cognitive and language development. (8) Flashcards

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The stages of development are sensory motor, pre-operational, concrete operational and formal operational.

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The stages of development do not account for individual differences in children’s cognitive and language development, so they don’t explain all development.

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What are the stages of development?

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  • sensory motor
  • pre-opeational
  • concrete operational
  • formal operational
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the stages of development do not account for?

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individual differences in childrens cognitive and alnguage development, so they don’t explain all development

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Piaget claimed that mental representations of our knowledge and personal experiences are not fixed.

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A constructionist view that knowledge is accumulated through interaction with the world ignores the human innate predisposition to communicate, such as LAD proposed by Chomsky.

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what did Piaget claim about mental representations ?

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claimed that mental representations of our knowledge and personal experiences are not fixed

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a constructionist view

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that knowledge is accumulated through interaction with the world ignores the humal innate predisposition to communicate, such as LAD proposed by Chomsky.

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A child adapts their schema through adaptation, assimilation, accommodation and equilibrium.

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Piaget studied children in artificial settings to develop his stages meaning evidence for assimilation comes from tasks that lack validity

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what does a child adapt their schema through?

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adaptation, assimilation, accomodation and equilibrium

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what type of setting did Piaget study children in?

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artficial settings to develop stages meaning evidence for assimilation comes from tasks that lack validiity.

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what did Piaget claim about cognitive stages?

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claimed cognitive stages were universal and all children progress through these stages

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what does cross cultural research highlight?

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that cultural factors do influences the rate of operational development therefore the stages many not be appropriate in non-western populations

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Piaget claimed cognitive stages were universal and all children progress through these stages

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Cross cultural research highlights that cultural factors do influence the rate of operational development therefore the stages may not be appropriate in non-western populations.

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