2. Piaget

Question 1

What is genetic epistemology? (Piaget PCA)

Answer 1

The study of the origins of knowledge

Question 2

What is the term that best describes synthesis of nature and nurture? (Piaget PCA)

Answer 2

Constructivism

Question 3

According to Piaget, what is the child throughout development? (Piaget PCA)

Answer 3

An active agent

Question 4

What is the physical properties of knowledge known as? (Piaget PCA)`

Answer 4

Physical knowledge

Question 5

What is our actions upon objects known as? (Piaget PCA)

Answer 5

Logical mathematical knowledge

Question 6

What must occur in order to progress to the next stage of development? (Piaget PCA)

Answer 6

Meeting the requirements of the previous stage

Question 7

What is children’s knowledge organised into? (Piaget PCA)

Answer 7

Schemas

Question 8

What do early schemas involve? (Piaget PCA)

Answer 8

Internalised action

Question 9

What do later schemas involve? (Piaget PCA)

Answer 9

Intellectual activity

Question 10

What is a key principle according to Piaget? (Piaget PCA)

Answer 10

Adaptation and organisation

Question 11

What is assimilation? (Piaget PCA)

Answer 11

Incorporating new objects from the environment into pre-existing schemas

Question 12

What is accommodation? (Piaget PCA)

Answer 12

Modifying schemas in response to a new object or event

Question 13

What is equilibration? (Piaget PCA)

Answer 13

A sequential pattern of self-regulation to achieve a balance between maintaining existing schemas and modifying them to deal with new information

Question 14

What are the 4 stages to Piaget’s theory and what age group does it involve? (Piaget PCA)

Answer 14

1. Sensorimotor (0-2)
2. Pre-operational (2-7)
3. Concrete operational (7-11)
4. Former operations (11+)

Question 15

What does the sensorimotor stage involve? (Piaget PCA)

Answer 15

Moving from reflexes to reflecting

Question 16

What does the pre-operational stage involve? (Piaget PCA)

Answer 16

• Increased mental representations

- Difficulty in manipulation of mental representation

Question 17

What does the concrete operational stage involve? (Piaget PCA)

Answer 17

• Classification in multiple dimension

- Understanding compensation

Question 18

What does the former operational stage involve? (Piaget PCA)

Answer 18

• Dissociation of truth from logic

- Strategic planning

Question 19

What is the object permanence of the sensorimotor stage? (Piaget PCA)

Answer 19

Recognition that objects exist in the absence of any sensory perception (out of sight, out of mind)

Question 20

What is the mental representations of the sensorimotor stage? (Piaget PCA)

Answer 20

Allows for an understanding of object permanence, e.g. pretend play

Question 21

What is egocentrism? (Piaget PCA)

Answer 21

A child only being able to see view points of their own