Piaget

Question 1

What are Piaget’s basic assumtions about child development?

Answer 1

children go through stages and sequenzes in their learning
are active learners
use prior experiences/schemas to learn
imitate and transform what they learn into symbolic behaviour

Question 2

adaption

Answer 2

cycle of assimilation and accomodation to reach equilibrium

Question 3

assimilation

Answer 3

filing information into an existing schema

Question 4

accomodation

Answer 4

changing schemata to fit in new information, person adapts to environment

Question 5

equilibrium

Answer 5

balance between internal structures and environment

Question 6

disequilibrium

Answer 6

imbalance between schemata and environment

Question 7

schema

Answer 7

structure to organize information

Question 8

How could the knowledge about schemata influence your work?

Answer 8

each child has individual schemata
encourage self-direction
look at concepts from different angles
don't project your own thinking structures on your students
from general to detail
from simple to complex
from concrete to abstract
try to make information connect with students previous experiences/existing schema

Question 9

Which are the stages of cognitive development according to Piaget?

Answer 9

sensorimotor (0-18 months)
preoperational (18 months- 7 years)
concrete operational (7-12 years)
formal operational (12+ years)

Question 10

characteristics of sensimotorstage

Answer 10

children explore and recognize people and objects through their senses, activities and movements
schema=pattern of action
schema can be generalised and become increasingly coordinated
egocentrism
centralisation
by 12 months object permanency

Question 11

characteristics of preoperational stage

Answer 11

action schema become representional (children can represent thing and actions through language, movements, pretend play and drawings)
development of memory
anticipate future
animism (children assume that objects have conciousness)
magical thinking

Question 12

characteristics of concrete operations stage

Answer 12

begin to understand class inclusion
conservation of mass, number
need real situations to think conceptionally
can see things from somebody elses point of view
use symbols in music, drawing, maths
are able to decentrate (consider more than one aspect of a problem)

Question 13

characteristics of formal stage

Answer 13

understand abstract concepts (fairness, justice, peace)
make a hyothesis and test it
can speak in abstract ways about things