Many other researchers and psychologists supported Piaget's theory of cognitive development in children and also helped in influencing the ideas in the area of developmental psychology as a subject. He also was able to change the way people looked at a child's world and how to use the various methods of studying their children. Piaget was also a huge inspiration to many people and they used his ideas to establish many studies that helped in increasing the understanding of cognitive development among children. His ideas have been also of practical use in understanding and also communication amongst children especially in the areas of education. Piaget's focus was more on qualitative development and its importance it has on education (Traill,
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Piaget’s methods that included the many clinical interviews and observations that had partial interpretations than compared to the other methods because he conducted these observations alone and collected the data based on his own interpretations of the events that took place. Many believed that the data would have been more reliable if Piaget had to conduct these observations with some other researcher and then finally compared the results later to check whether or not they are similar to each other or have inter rater reliability. Also many studies showed that Piaget also did not believe in the capabilities of the children because his tests were usually very confusing and very difficult to understand (Forbes, S. A. …show more content…
His studies were also carries out with a very small number of participants and few of them were his own children (Wubbena, Zane (2013). This sample became biased and the results could not be generalized to the children who came from different countries and cultures. Another issue was that for Piaget language was a secondary issue to action. He strongly believed that the process of thought overpowered language but however many other psychologists argued that language development and thought process are very similar to each other and the method for reasoning was directly related to the ability to communicate well with others than the interaction with the
Piaget’s methods that included the many clinical interviews and observations that had partial interpretations than compared to the other methods because he conducted these observations alone and collected the data based on his own interpretations of the events that took place. Many believed that the data would have been more reliable if Piaget had to conduct these observations with some other researcher and then finally compared the results later to check whether or not they are similar to each other or have inter rater reliability. Also many studies showed that Piaget also did not believe in the capabilities of the children because his tests were usually very confusing and very difficult to understand (Forbes, S. A. …show more content…
His studies were also carries out with a very small number of participants and few of them were his own children (Wubbena, Zane (2013). This sample became biased and the results could not be generalized to the children who came from different countries and cultures. Another issue was that for Piaget language was a secondary issue to action. He strongly believed that the process of thought overpowered language but however many other psychologists argued that language development and thought process are very similar to each other and the method for reasoning was directly related to the ability to communicate well with others than the interaction with the