Week 6: Piaget Day

Question 1

What is Piaget known for ?

Answer 1

He’s the father of the field of cognitive development

Question 2

Piaget’s Theory
* what develop when?
* how
* Evaluation
* what?

Answer 2

When: Piaget’s 4 stages ( includes age, abilities and tasks used to tap those abilities
How? Understand/ apply developmental processes of assimilation, accommodation and equilibration
Evaluation: know the strengths and weakness of Piaget’s theory
What: to apply Piaget’s theory

Question 3

What is Theory?

Answer 3

Explanation of how something works.
* got thinking develop through childhood.

Question 4

Jean Piaget

Answer 4

Studied every aspect of child cognition
Used his own children and neighbor’s child
Lots of his ideas were wrong but helpful

Question 5

Constructivist approach

Answer 5

Children as constructing knowledge for themselves
Seen as: active, scientists, motivated to learn

Question 6

Piaget (1964)

Answer 6

BIg Idea: learning is constrained by development
- Equilibration is an internal process necessary to develop
“ ACTIVE LEARNERS”

Question 7

Stage 1: Sensorimotor

Answer 7

Birth to 2 years
Action-based reasoning - operate on actual objects, not mental representation
Limiation: no symbolic thoughts
Failed object permanence until 9 months ( when something is covered up, the brain is not able to visually see it in their brain. )

Question 8

A- NOT - B ERROR

Answer 8

9-12 months
New borns are not able to perform object permanence
( visually capable to seeing something when hidden)

Question 9

Stage 2: Pre operational

Answer 9

2-7 years old
Symbolic thoughts,
Limitation: Egocentric ( not able to understand another person’s perspective)
Fails the 3 mountain test ( which is not understanding the person’s perspective)
Failed : conservation of liquid ( is this the same, after changing the size,
Not having logic)

Question 10

What is similar between the liquid task and coun task?

Answer 10

Lack logic

Question 11

Why does a child in the preoperational phase struggle with them?

Answer 11

Perspective not previous knowledge ( what they see)

Question 12

Stage 3: Concrete Operation

Answer 12

7-12 yrs
Able to preform: logic thinking
Abilities: take perspective of others ( E.G. 3 mountain study)
Logic deduction on concrete things ( conservation of liquid, E.G is the is this the same size, after moving it)
Limitation:
Can’t reason about abstract
No systematic investigations * no thinking

Question 13

Stage 4 Formal Operation

Answer 13

12 years and older
Abstract thinking
Abilities: reason about hypothetical - thinking about reasoning
Systematic investigation - use one variable at a time