Piaget's Theory

Piaget's Theory

1. What was Piaget's theory about ?

   • Piaget wanted to explore children cognitive development and how it changed as they aged
   • Piaget investigated children's cognitive development by creating a series of expirements , he implemeted this on his children and some others
     • The mountain experiment: A researcher asked a younger child what they could see and he was able to tell her,when asked what she could see he was only able to say what the could see.

2. Piaget believed childrens cognititive development developed in stages

   • Sensori-motor stage: 0-2(age)
   • OBJECT PERMENENCE : The ability to realise that objects still exist even though your unable to see them
   • Pre - Operational : 2-7(age)
   • EGOCENTRISM : The inability to understand other people prospective other than their own
   • Intuitive : When child begins to question authority
   • Concrete Operational Stage 7-11
     • Classification : Ability to identify object by it's size , appearance and or other characteristics
       • Conservation : Ability to understand that despite object changing in appearance quantity is still the same
         • Decentrism : Ability to see things from other perspectives other than their's
           • Reversibility : When the child is able to understand that numbers and objects can be changed and be returned to it's original state