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Sensorimotor: Birth - 2 years
Piaget stages of Pre-operational: 2 - 7 years
cognitive
development Concrete operational: 7-11 years
Formal operations: 11-18 years
Piaget's Theory of How children use their experiences to
Cognitive construct their understanding of the world
Development around them - schemas
- summary
Assimilation: the child constructs an
understanding or concept (schema)
Equilibrium: the child's experience fits with their
schema
Schemas
Disequilibrium: a new experience disturbs the
child's schema
Accommodation: the child's understanding
(schema) changes to take account of the new
experience
, Children pass through distinct developmental
stages
In sequence.
Children should be able to discover things for
themselves through spontaneous play.
Piaget's Theory of
Egocentrism - under 7s:
Cognitive
Only see things from their own perspective
Development
Mountain test.
- key features
Conservation - under 7s:
Children under 7 cannot conserve because
they cannot think about more than one aspect
of a situation at a time;
Water in glasses of different dimension
Piaget underestimated children's rate of
development
With support, children can develop more
Criticisms of Piaget's advanced concepts
theory of cognitive
development Children can be given experiences that help
them move through the stages at a faster rate
Some children can see things from the
perspective of others before the age of 7
Chomsky's LAD theory helps to explain how
Chomsky's theory of
children develop language skills. It is based on
language
nativist theory which suggests that
development
individuals are pre-programmed to develop in
- summary
a certain way