Piaget

Question 1

Adaptation?

Answer 1

Process by which a child’s schemas are developed to fit with their experience of the world. Construction of schemas that match the environment in which they life.

Question 2

Assimilation?

Answer 2

Adding to a existing schema, either applying to a new situation or adding to a existing schema.

Question 3

Accommodation?

Answer 3

Changing a schema or developing a new schema in order to deal with a new situation.

Question 4

Equilibration?

Answer 4

Cognitive balance has occurred because the child’s incoming info can be dealt with due to pre existing knowledge.

Question 5

Disequilibrium

Answer 5

Cognitive imbalance, understanding of the world is inconsistent with incoming info.

Question 6

Discovery learning?

Answer 6

Learning as a result of active exploration.

Question 7

What is stage one called? What age?

Answer 7

Sensorimotor stage. Birth - 2.

Question 8

Object concept?

Answer 8

Awareness that objects exist independently of us and continue to exist even if we are not observing them.

Question 9

Object permanence

Answer 9

Knowing that a object still exist even if it is hidden.

Question 10

Study into object permenance?

Answer 10

Toy under blanket, 8 months object permanence occurs.

Question 11

Eval of sensorimotor?

Answer 11

Several explanations why didn’t search for toy.
Under 8 months lack motor skills to search.
Covering toy may lead to it being forbidden.

Question 12

Stage two? Age?

Answer 12

Pre operational stage 2-7

Question 13

Ego centrism?

Answer 13

Childs inability to see a situation from another’s persons view.

Question 14

Study for ego centrism?

Answer 14

Three mountains, 10 pictures, another view.

Question 15

Eval of preoperational

Answer 15

Unusual situation
Hard to look at 3D situation rather than real life
Lack of motivation, boring

Question 16

Critical research of 3 mountains task?

Answer 16

Policeman and the doll

Question 17

Animism

Answer 17

Belief that innate objects have feelings and intentions.

Question 18

Centration

Answer 18

Deal with one aspect of a situation at a time

Question 19

The intuitive period

Answer 19

Children’s judgements are influenced by the appearance of a objects appearance.

Question 20

Conservation of mass?

Answer 20

Two equal balls of clay, change shape.

Pre operational child will say more if in a different shape.

Question 21

Conservation of liquid? Study?

Answer 21

Two beakers filled same level put one in a long thin glass. More water in long thing glass.

Question 22

Stage 3 and age?

Answer 22

Concrete operations 7-11

Question 23

Conservation?

Answer 23

Understanding that redistributing material does not affect its mass

Question 24

Reversibility

Answer 24

Transformation can be undone

Question 25

Compensation

Answer 25

Understanding things change

Question 26

Class inclusion?

Answer 26

Shows that children know that objects fall in to two categories. White and brown wooden beads study.

Question 27

Critical research of wooden beads study

Answer 27

Cows sleeping and black cows and white cows

Question 28

Stage 4

Answer 28

Formal operational 11+

Question 29

What happens in sensorimotor?

Answer 29

Object permanence

Animism

Question 30

What happens in pre-operational?

Answer 30

Centration

Egocentrism

Question 31

Concrete operational stage

Answer 31

Class inclusion

Question 32

Formal operational

Answer 32

Abstract reasoning
Hypothetical thinking
Systematic problem solving

Question 33

Bad points of Piaget

Answer 33

Too rigid so introduced horizontal decalade: more than one stages categories.
Formal operational stage, adults may not even have a job for scientific reasoning and higher thinking.
People suggest that guidance from adults is essential and importance of scaffolding

Question 34

Piagets methods criticism

Answer 34

Small sample

He assumed that if children did not succeed at a task he said it was because of they lacked the ability too.

Question 35

Positives of piaget

Answer 35

Paved the way for further research
Clinical observations and has provided us with rich and detailed info
Simple and easy to conduct
Vastly applied to education influenced early years education a great deal

Question 36

Applying Piaget to education evaluation

Answer 36

Teachers position ambiguous, responsible for learning and supposed to let the child progress at their own pace.
Emphasis on readiness may not progress due to social inn equalities as children from less advantaged backgrounds may not progress as rapidly.
Co operation empathy are not encouraged

Question 37

Piaget and education

Answer 37

Child centred approach learning through active discovery
Teachers should provide materials to help children to solve problems
Presenting opportunities for the learning of new concepts when the child is ready

Question 38

Schema?

Answer 38

Mental building block of knowledge, we use to respond to different situations. Babies have simple innate schemas.