Paigets Stages

Question 1

Paigets stages are

Answer 1

Stages of intellectual development

Question 2

How many stages are there

Answer 2

4

Question 3

Name of first stage

Answer 3

Sensorimotor stage

Question 4

Age of sensorimotor stage

Answer 4

0-2

Question 5

Key features of sensorimotor stage

Answer 5

Development of object performance which is the understanding that objects and people do still exist when they can’t be seen

Question 6

What happens at 8months

Answer 6

Children understand things still exist when they are out of sight

Question 7

The second stage is

Answer 7

Pre-operational stage

Question 8

Age of pre-operational stage

Answer 8

2-7

Question 9

Feature of pre-operational stage

Answer 9

Children’s logic can’t be used to explain how things work in the real world - they can’t perform logical reasoning and rely on what they see

Question 10

Example of what a child believes in pre-operational stage

Answer 10

Most things are alive eg teddy or table

Question 11

Supportive evidence from pre - operational stage

Answer 11

The conservation of volume, mass and number task

Paigets three mountain task

Question 12

Third stage

Answer 12

Concrete operational stage

Question 13

Age of concrete operational stage

Answer 13

7-11

Question 14

Key features of concrete operational stage

Answer 14

• children have developed ability to use logic

- however they lack abstract reasoning

Question 15

Last stage

Answer 15

Formal operational stage

Question 16

Age of formal operational stage

Answer 16

Age 11+

Question 17

Key features formal operational stage

Answer 17

• abstract thinking
• allowing us to think more like scientists and ‘idealistic thinking’ by using our imaginations to think of how things might be if we make more changes

Question 18

Description of conservation of volume

Answer 18

The ability to realise the quantity of an object stays the same even when the appearance of an object changes

Question 19

Description of the three mountains task

Answer 19

Us used to assess visual perspective taking in children
- a doll is placed at various locations around 3 dimensional display of three mountains, children must indicate how the doll sees the display

Question 20

What does three mountains task show

Answer 20

A child can only appreciate their own perspective

Question 21

4 evaluation of Paigets stages

Answer 21

• cultural bias
• good application to real world
• supportive evidence
• conclusions about conservation research is flawed

Question 22

Elaboration strength - supportive evidence

Answer 22

• support of pre operational stage

- three mountains task and conservation of mass/ volume

Question 23

Elaboration of weakness - cultural bias

Answer 23

• focused on middle class European background bc he was from there and studied people there
• in other classes, cultures greater volume placed on eg more basic level of concrete thinking rather than logical operations
• isn’t universally applicable

Question 24

Elaboration strength - application to real world

Answer 24

• suggests children aren’t biologically ready to be taught certain concepts until they reach a certain age
• eg teaching pre operational children maths would be tricky
• plowden report 1967 drew on these conclusions leading to major changes in primary school education

Question 25

Elaboration weakness - conclusions about conservations in research is flawed

Answer 25

• children taking part in Paigets conservation studies may have been influenced by seeing experimenter change
• mc garnigle and Donaldson set up study where counters appeared to be moved by accident and found children ages 4-6 child conserve as long as they weren’t being put off