Piaget Flashcards
Adaptation?
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.
Assimilation?
Adding to a existing schema, either applying to a new situation or adding to a existing schema.
Accommodation?
Changing a schema or developing a new schema in order to deal with a new situation.
Equilibration?
Cognitive balance has occurred because the child’s incoming info can be dealt with due to pre existing knowledge.
Disequilibrium
Cognitive imbalance, understanding of the world is inconsistent with incoming info.
Discovery learning?
Learning as a result of active exploration.
What is stage one called? What age?
Sensorimotor stage. Birth - 2.
Object concept?
Awareness that objects exist independently of us and continue to exist even if we are not observing them.
Object permanence
Knowing that a object still exist even if it is hidden.
Study into object permenance?
Toy under blanket, 8 months object permanence occurs.
Eval of sensorimotor?
Several explanations why didn’t search for toy.
Under 8 months lack motor skills to search.
Covering toy may lead to it being forbidden.
Stage two? Age?
Pre operational stage 2-7
Ego centrism?
Childs inability to see a situation from another’s persons view.
Study for ego centrism?
Three mountains, 10 pictures, another view.
Eval of preoperational
Unusual situation
Hard to look at 3D situation rather than real life
Lack of motivation, boring
Critical research of 3 mountains task?
Policeman and the doll
Animism
Belief that innate objects have feelings and intentions.
Centration
Deal with one aspect of a situation at a time
The intuitive period
Children’s judgements are influenced by the appearance of a objects appearance.
Conservation of mass?
Two equal balls of clay, change shape.
Pre operational child will say more if in a different shape.
Conservation of liquid? Study?
Two beakers filled same level put one in a long thin glass. More water in long thing glass.
Stage 3 and age?
Concrete operations 7-11
Conservation?
Understanding that redistributing material does not affect its mass
Reversibility
Transformation can be undone
Compensation
Understanding things change
Class inclusion?
Shows that children know that objects fall in to two categories. White and brown wooden beads study.
Critical research of wooden beads study
Cows sleeping and black cows and white cows
Stage 4
Formal operational 11+
What happens in sensorimotor?
Object permanence
Animism
What happens in pre-operational?
Centration
Egocentrism
Concrete operational stage
Class inclusion
Formal operational
Abstract reasoning
Hypothetical thinking
Systematic problem solving
Bad points of Piaget
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
Piagets methods criticism
Small sample
He assumed that if children did not succeed at a task he said it was because of they lacked the ability too.
Positives of piaget
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
Applying Piaget to education evaluation
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
Piaget and education
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
Schema?
Mental building block of knowledge, we use to respond to different situations. Babies have simple innate schemas.
