Piaget

Question 1

Key Features of Piagets approach

Answer 1

-Structuralist
-Development is systematic
- Schemas
- Assimilation and Accommodation

Question 2

Piaget thinks we are motivated to learn when…

Answer 2

our existing schema no longer allows us to make sense of the work

Question 3

Assimilation

Answer 3

When we discover new info to add to an existing schema- achieves equilibrium

Question 4

Accommodation

Answer 4

Radically changing current schema to form a new one

Question 5

2 Strengths of Piagets theory

Answer 5

1- Practical Application for education
2- Considerable evidence

Question 6

2 Limitations of Piagets theory

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1- Alternate Exp: Vygotsky
2- Equilibrium- not everyone feels uncomfortable not knowing

Question 7

1- Sensory Motor Stage

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• Birth to 18 months
• Develop object permanence at 8 months
• Child rarely understands separation anxiety

Question 8

2- Pre-operational Stage

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• 18 months to 7 years
• Conservation: comprehends volume and mass
• Egocentricism: seeing perspective from someone else apart from their own
  -Class Inclusion: understanding how to put things into separate categories/classify

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3- Concrete Operational Stage

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• 7 to 12 years
• Understands all 3 previous stages
• Decentered: take into account multiple aspects of a situation

Question 10

4- Formal Operational Stage

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-12 years+
- Formal logic and abstract thinking
- Sophistication, think creatively, use abstract reasoning

Question 11

A03 strengths

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+ Practical Application: insights into qualities and limitations of child thought

Question 12

A03 limitations
Opposing research

Answer 12

• Samuel and Bryant: repeated test and found that repetition of questions affected results. Conservation happens much younger
• Siegler and Svetina: Class inclusion tasks confusing- happens much younger than Piaget said
• Domain general- Ignores ASC, neurodivergent development