Introduction
Piaget is thought to be the first to study children and how they learn. Piaget has four stages of cognitive development, sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational and formal operational. Each stage has different outcomes and also has different ages for each stage. Piaget although a well respected theorist had some implications in his research of children. Piaget only studied his children and no others giving somewhat bias results to the tests and to the stages of cognitive development that Piaget created.
Explain the process of learning according to Piaget. Use examples and Piagetian terms to describe the process.
The process of learning according to Piaget goes through different stages for different ages. The sensory motor stage aged from zero to two years. In this stage they are dominated by motor and sensory activities. The next stage is the Preoperational stage aged 2 to 7 years where thinking is still limited. the third stage of cognitive development is concrete operations stage, aged 7 to 12 years. The last stage of cognitive development is from 12 years (Duchesne, 2016). …show more content…
One of the most common implications that is looked at for Piaget’s theory is the set ages for each stage of cognitive development. Through many studies it has been found that the last stage of cognitive development has been overestimated for someone at the age of 12 (Duchesne, 2016). There has also been question if there are different stages of thinking. The stages of thinking also have the implication of something just appearing instead of working gradually towards it. For example, you have to work towards finding and object when I has been placed away, instead of someone always giving you the object you need to work towards finding the object for yourself instead of just knowing where it is without looking (woolford,
Piaget is thought to be the first to study children and how they learn. Piaget has four stages of cognitive development, sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational and formal operational. Each stage has different outcomes and also has different ages for each stage. Piaget although a well respected theorist had some implications in his research of children. Piaget only studied his children and no others giving somewhat bias results to the tests and to the stages of cognitive development that Piaget created.
Explain the process of learning according to Piaget. Use examples and Piagetian terms to describe the process.
The process of learning according to Piaget goes through different stages for different ages. The sensory motor stage aged from zero to two years. In this stage they are dominated by motor and sensory activities. The next stage is the Preoperational stage aged 2 to 7 years where thinking is still limited. the third stage of cognitive development is concrete operations stage, aged 7 to 12 years. The last stage of cognitive development is from 12 years (Duchesne, 2016). …show more content…
One of the most common implications that is looked at for Piaget’s theory is the set ages for each stage of cognitive development. Through many studies it has been found that the last stage of cognitive development has been overestimated for someone at the age of 12 (Duchesne, 2016). There has also been question if there are different stages of thinking. The stages of thinking also have the implication of something just appearing instead of working gradually towards it. For example, you have to work towards finding and object when I has been placed away, instead of someone always giving you the object you need to work towards finding the object for yourself instead of just knowing where it is without looking (woolford,