Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Cognitive Development
- invariant and universal stages
- Piaget
- Sensori Motor 0-2
- Object Permanence
- exploring the world through senses
- Pre-Operational 2-7
- Animism
- understand the world through symbols and signs
- reversibility / egocentrism
- Concrete Operational 7-11
- Conservation
- children think in abstract terms
- Linguistic Humour / Seriation
- Formal Operational 11+
- Hypothetical Questioning / Abstract Problems
- Stages are Not Fixed
- Not Everyone Passes through All Stages
- Cultural Differences - Aboriginal
Children develop concrete
operational thinking earlier than
Western Children for survival
- Theory Does Not Explain How transition occurs
- biological theory
- Vygotsky
- Zone of Proximal Development
- development within culture
- child as the apprentice
- individual pace / influenced by those around the child
- cultural tools
- scaffolding
- Piaget and Conservation of Number
- To check the ability of pre operational children to conserve
- Cross sectional study / children of different
ages / shown identical parallel rows of
counters / questioned / row1 extended /
question repeated
- Pre operational children = stretched row contained more counters
- Concrete Operational children = mainly answered correctly
- Concrete Operational children
have the ability to reverse the
situation and can conserve
- sample size
- contrived nature of test
- questioning of children only
normally occurs twice if first
answer is incorrect
- Applications - education learning at appropriate ages / concept of readiness (Piaget)
- Applications - spiral curriculum / role of teacher / scaffolding (Vgotsky)