Piaget’s Stages Of Development

Question 1

✅ [PIAGET] Implications of ‘Discovery Learning’ and ‘Readiness’ for education

Answer 1

• Research by Inhelder and Piaget shows that children think differently at different stages, reinforcing the need for stage-appropriate teaching strategies.
• Many primary schools adopt ‘discovery learning’ (child as scientist)
• (+educational application)

Question 2

X [PIAGET] Contradictory research on egocentrism

Answer 2

• Hughes demonstrated that children aged 3.5 could position a doll so single policeman could not see it 90% of the time, and 4 year olds hid the doll from two policemen with the same level of success
• Implies that children in this age range may have more sophisticated perspective-taking abilities than Piaget initially proposed.
• (-validity)

Question 3

X [PIAGET] Evidence in autism for separation of cognitive development

Answer 3

• assumes all cognitive development happens uniformly - however this may not always be the case
• While some autistic children develop co-occurring learning disabilities, others do not
• (-generalisability)