Robbie Case's Neo-Piagetian Theory

Question 1

What are Case’s 4 phases

Answer 1

1) sensorimotor (0-2 years)
2) interrelation (2-8 years)
3) dimensional stage (5-11 years)
4) vectorial stage (11-19 years)

Question 2

What does Case attribute each stage to?

Answer 2

working memory- short term memory store where rehearsal takes place.
and increase in central processing speed.

Question 3

What did Case attribute working memory to?

Answer 3

brain developement (as a child gets older neurological changes occur in the brain allowing more information to be stored)
automatisation (piaget's tasks become practiced so much they become automatic)
formation of central conceptual structures (fewer demands on working memory and free memory capacity can be used for combining and generation new schemes)

Question 4

What did Case say to go through to the next stage of development

Answer 4

you must form a new conceptual structure

Question 5

What can Case explain better than Piaget

Answer 5

Horizontal decalage- once a child can perform a certain task they do not know how to apply the context to other tasks