Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Piaget's Theory of
Cognitive Development
- Piaget (1896 - 1980)
- Swiss
- worked: 1920 - 1980
- philosopher: genetic
epistemology, constructivism
- psychologist:
contemporary topics
- methods
- observation of children
in nurseries
- Q & A: analysing answers &
the reasoning for them
- dialogue
- tasks & puzzles: children
solving puzzles, analysing
their reasons for solutions
they give
- 4 key concepts
Anmerkungen:
- e.g.
equilibrium: familiar with birds - thinks all flying objects are birdsassimiliation: sees an airplane and calls it a birddisequilibrium: notices that places don't have feathers or flat their wingsaccommodation: concludes that places are not birds, but placesorganisation
- 1. SCHEMA
- = knowledge organised into
chunks of similar or related
answers
- = concepts, theories, beliefs
- it is a flexible grouping
- change &
develop
with new
experiences
- = cognitive task
- 2. ASSIMILATION
- = inputting new info into
existing schemas without
changing the organisation of
them
- happens constantly
- every time: recognise or learn sth
- difficult: if can't place
an object in a
pre-given concept
- 3. ACCOMMODATION
- = changning schemas to
adapt to new information
- experiences that challenge one's
belief
- 4.
EQUILIBRIUM
- = sense of order,
balance, coherence,
stability in the mind
- = balanced and well-ordered
schemas
- driving force = search for
equilibrium
- disequilibrium = due to new
info, leads to search for new
state of equilibrium
- 4 stages
Anmerkungen:
- child relies on different type of thinking than an adult does => they go through stages of intellectual growth
- 1. SENSORIMOTOR STAGE (o-2
yrs)
- child's own sensations
Anmerkungen:
- looks at a rattle: does not perceive iit as permanent, independent object => looks away, rattle does not exist anymore
- simple reflex action patterns
Anmerkungen:
- reaching, grasping, sucking
- developing: sense
of OBJECT
PERMANENCE
Anmerkungen:
- The conviction that an object exists even when it is out of sight. Piaget believed infants didn't develop this level of understanding until the age of at least eight months.
- 2. PREOPERATIONAL STAGE (2-7
yrs)
- representational skills
Anmerkungen:
- 1st attempt = a person, usually with a circle for head and two vertical lines for legs
- signs & symbols
- counting &
basic maths
- symbolic play &
symbolic
representations
Anmerkungen:
- through drawing & making models
- failure to conserve
quantity & number
- egocentrism
Anmerkungen:
- unable to take the viewpoint of others
- 3. CONCRETE OPERATIONAL STAGE
(7-11 yrs)
Anmerkungen:
- know how to interrelate their mental representations
concrete operation = ability to abstract a quality from concrete objects (e.g. quantity, weight, number, colour, volume, type)
- problems dealing with
objects are solvable
- literal meaning
- conservation tasks
- reversibility
Anmerkungen:
- e.g. mathematica sums & equations can work backwards
reversibility difficulties:
e.g. mummy and daddy got married twice - mummy got married to daddy and daddy got married to mummy
- transitivity
Anmerkungen:
- A < B, and B < C, therefore A < C
- seriation task
Anmerkungen:
- ability to sort objects or situations according to any characteristic, such as size, color, shape, or type
- 4. FORMAL OPERATIONAL STAGE
(12+)
Anmerkungen:
- physics, maths, literature, history
- hypothesis testing
Anmerkungen:
- can guess the outcome of an event before it starts
- anticipation + planning
+ reflection =>
integrated in life
- prepositional logic
Anmerkungen:
- ideals
Anmerkungen:
- motivating visions of the future
- educational implications
- constructivist approach
Anmerkungen:
- National Curriculum
- critisms
- underestimation
- too much: analytical cognition
- beyond formal operation?
- social and group influence?