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Describe Sensorimotor stage of cognitive development |
-0-2 years -Knows the world through movements & sensations -Learns through actions (sucking, grasping, looking, listening) -Object permanence -They are separate beings -Know their actions can cause things to happen |
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Describe the Pre-operational Stage |
-2-7 years (2 stages) -Symbolic function stage (2-4 years): imitating others and symbolic play (using one object to represent different objects); egocentric (seeing the world from only their perspective); animistic (believe objects can behave as if they are alive) -Intuitive thought stage (4-7 years): start of reasoning butcan consider only one aspect of a complex thing (centration); conservation notyet achieved; and irreversibility (not knowing that volume of water is the samefrom a wide glass to a tall glass and back to wide glass) -Think in concrete terms |
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Describe the Concrete Operational Stage |
7 - 11 years Logical thinking about concrete events and use of concrete objects to learn (use of counters to sum or subtract) Ability in: - seriation (sort objects into size) - classification (name and identify objects according to size and appearance) - reversibility (3+5=8 therefore 8-3=5) - conservation (length, quantity or number are not related to how they look) - decentration (take multiple views of a situation) Reasoning from specific information to a general principle |
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Describe the Formal Operational Stage |
- 12+ years - Reasoning from general principles to specific information - actions have consequences. - Can think about more than two things (e.g. can describe a person in terms of height, age, weight and gender) - Understand that time changes things (speed) - Understand abstract ideas - e.g. morality |
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How has Piaget's stages been used in education? |
Children’s actions andinteractions affect their thinking, and that they cannotdo certain things until they reach the appropriate stageof development (2-4 year-olds are egocentric so they may not respond to instructions as they can't understand the teacher's viewpoint) Children build their own schemas (representations of the world) from their own experiences. |
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What are the strengths and weaknesses of Piaget's Theory? |
Strengths - practical applications (education), generation of new researches and experiments Weaknesses - did not include influence of social interactions (data from interviews of children with possible subjective interpretations) or cultural settings (research in Aboriginal children show later development of conservation); and lack of validity (more realistic settings of similar studies produced different findings). |
