Piaget

Question 2

What is Nativism and Empiricism?
What was Piaget’s view?

Answer 2

Nativism: much of humans’ cognitive ability is inborn. Empiricism: our cognitive abilities are the result of learning from experience.
Piaget was middle of the two, also known as constructivism.

Question 3

Is Piaget’s stage theory qualitative or quantitative change? Why?

Answer 3

Qualitative.

Question 4

How do his stages apply to children across the globe?

Answer 4

Universal, all children go through same stages at roughly the same time.

Question 5

What are the stages?

Answer 5

• Sensorimotor, birth-2
• Preoperational, 2-6
• Concrete operational, 6-11
• Formal operational, 11+

Question 6

What are some key features of the sensorimotor stage?

Answer 6

• Uses ability to sense and move to acquire information
• Explore environment with eyes, mouths, fingers to begin constructing schemas
• Begins in adualism, and innate reflexes eg grabbing teach them what is self generated and what is world generated, ends at end of stage.

Question 7

What are the sub-stages are in the sensorimotor stage?

Answer 7

1. Beginning
2. 2-4 months, object permanence, fail to follow an object out of the visual field
3. 4-8 months, fail to search for an occluded object
4. 8-12 months, will search for an occluded object, but make A-not-B error (hides object in container A, child reaches into A, then move object from A to B with child watching, child still searches in A). Child’s understanding of objects is dependent on their ability to act upon to object.
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6. 18-24, emerging from sensorimotor stage, schemas become freed from action, get mental representation, can act on thoughts as well as objects.