Piaget

Question 1

Piaget

Answer 1

Believed that children pass through four stages of learning.
- sensorimotor
- pre operational
- Concrete opoerational
- Formal operational

Question 2

Sensorimotor - birth to 2 years

Answer 2

Infants learn about their environment and develop early schemas by using all their senses to physically explore the world

Question 3

Pre operational - 2 to 7 years

Answer 3

Children begin to control their environment by using symbolic behaviour, including representational words and drawings and pretend play, but are not yet able to think logically

Question 4

Concrete operational - 7 to 11 years

Answer 4

Children use practical resources to help them to understand the world, such as counters for mathematics. They classify, categorise and use logic to understand things they see

Question 5

Formal operational - 11 to 18 years

Answer 5

Young people have the ability for abstract thoughts. Rational thought and problem solving

Question 6

Piaget constructivist theory

Answer 6

• children are active learners
• Children think differently from adults
• children construct their own meanings from their experiences and the environment around them
• language depends on the development of thought - cognition before language

Question 7

Application

Answer 7

• Provide activities that reflect children’s stage of cognitive development
• plan opportunities for exploratory play to enable children to develop their thoughts, which will lead to language development