Evaluate Piaget’s stages of cognitive and language development. (8)

Question 1

The stages of development are sensory motor, pre-operational, concrete operational and formal operational.

Answer 1

The stages of development do not account for individual differences in children’s cognitive and language development, so they don’t explain all development.

Question 2

What are the stages of development?

Answer 2

• sensory motor
• pre-opeational
• concrete operational
• formal operational

Question 3

the stages of development do not account for?

Answer 3

individual differences in childrens cognitive and alnguage development, so they don’t explain all development

Question 4

Piaget claimed that mental representations of our knowledge and personal experiences are not fixed.

Answer 4

A constructionist view that knowledge is accumulated through interaction with the world ignores the human innate predisposition to communicate, such as LAD proposed by Chomsky.

Question 5

what did Piaget claim about mental representations ?

Answer 5

claimed that mental representations of our knowledge and personal experiences are not fixed

Question 6

a constructionist view

Answer 6

that knowledge is accumulated through interaction with the world ignores the humal innate predisposition to communicate, such as LAD proposed by Chomsky.

Question 7

A child adapts their schema through adaptation, assimilation, accommodation and equilibrium.

Answer 7

Piaget studied children in artificial settings to develop his stages meaning evidence for assimilation comes from tasks that lack validity

Question 8

what does a child adapt their schema through?

Answer 8

adaptation, assimilation, accomodation and equilibrium

Question 9

what type of setting did Piaget study children in?

Answer 9

artficial settings to develop stages meaning evidence for assimilation comes from tasks that lack validiity.

Question 10

what did Piaget claim about cognitive stages?

Answer 10

claimed cognitive stages were universal and all children progress through these stages

Question 11

what does cross cultural research highlight?

Answer 11

that cultural factors do influences the rate of operational development therefore the stages many not be appropriate in non-western populations

Question 12

Piaget claimed cognitive stages were universal and all children progress through these stages

Answer 12

Cross cultural research highlights that cultural factors do influence the rate of operational development therefore the stages may not be appropriate in non-western populations.