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Essay question: Jean Piaget proposed a step-wise sequence of mental development during childhood. Provide an overview of Piaget’s core ideas, discussing evidence for and against these ideas.
Jean Piaget (1869-1980) started to investigate children’s development after two years of working with children in Binet’s lab (Eddy, 2010).He found that children of younger aged gave different answers than those of alder age not because they have less knowledge but because they thought differently. He describes development as sequence of stages and each of these stages represents different type of thinking occurs in variable ages in different background (Vidal, 2000)
Focal point – children have all the cognitive mechanisms to learn by constantly react with their environment. Experiences also play an very important formative role in children’s development. Piaget …show more content…
Support and Criticism of Piaget’s Stage Theory. http://psychology.about.com/od/piagetstheory/p/piagetcriticism.htm
Edday, S. (2010). Theories of cognitive development: Jean Piaget. http://psychohawks.wordpress.com/2010/09/05/theories-of-cognitive-development-jean-piaget/
Piaget J. 1985. The Equilibration of Cognitive Structure. Chicago: Univ. Chicago Press
Read, D.T. (1997). Jean Piaget and The World Of The Child. The evolution of psychology: Fifty years of the America Psychologist. (Ed.) (pp. 355-372). Us: American Psychological Association. http://web.ebscohost.com.ezlibproxy.unisa.edu.au/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=ddd6a4e1-aff4-4b81-9f02-716543a46cb9%40sessionmgr12&vid=2&hid=10 (useful)
Vidal, T. (2000). Jean Piaget. In Encyclopedia of psychology. (pp. 193-196). Washington. US: American Psychological Association. http://www.easybib.com/reference/guide/apa/encyclopedia
Wellman, H.M. and Gelman, S.G. (1992). Cognitive Development: Foundational Theories of Core Domains.
Essay question: Jean Piaget proposed a step-wise sequence of mental development during childhood. Provide an overview of Piaget’s core ideas, discussing evidence for and against these ideas.
Jean Piaget (1869-1980) started to investigate children’s development after two years of working with children in Binet’s lab (Eddy, 2010).He found that children of younger aged gave different answers than those of alder age not because they have less knowledge but because they thought differently. He describes development as sequence of stages and each of these stages represents different type of thinking occurs in variable ages in different background (Vidal, 2000)
Focal point – children have all the cognitive mechanisms to learn by constantly react with their environment. Experiences also play an very important formative role in children’s development. Piaget …show more content…
Support and Criticism of Piaget’s Stage Theory. http://psychology.about.com/od/piagetstheory/p/piagetcriticism.htm
Edday, S. (2010). Theories of cognitive development: Jean Piaget. http://psychohawks.wordpress.com/2010/09/05/theories-of-cognitive-development-jean-piaget/
Piaget J. 1985. The Equilibration of Cognitive Structure. Chicago: Univ. Chicago Press
Read, D.T. (1997). Jean Piaget and The World Of The Child. The evolution of psychology: Fifty years of the America Psychologist. (Ed.) (pp. 355-372). Us: American Psychological Association. http://web.ebscohost.com.ezlibproxy.unisa.edu.au/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=ddd6a4e1-aff4-4b81-9f02-716543a46cb9%40sessionmgr12&vid=2&hid=10 (useful)
Vidal, T. (2000). Jean Piaget. In Encyclopedia of psychology. (pp. 193-196). Washington. US: American Psychological Association. http://www.easybib.com/reference/guide/apa/encyclopedia
Wellman, H.M. and Gelman, S.G. (1992). Cognitive Development: Foundational Theories of Core Domains.