Aepa early childhood education (36) nes
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Piaget - Correct answer-Cognitive constructivist perspective of learning in
explaining how children build or construct knowledge of their world
-childrens' development must necessarily precede their learning (stages of
development)
children construct knowledge through interactions with others and through their
experience using thought process of assimilation and accommodation
ex: A child seeing a zebra for the first time and calling it a horse. The child
assimilates this information into her schema for a horse.
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,Piaget: teaching implications - Correct answer-support children to explore their
world and discover their knowledge
Assimilation (piaget) - Correct answer-What are the processes that children used to
construct knowledge they take new information into existing cognitive structure of
score schema
ex: Assimilation is like adding air into a balloon. You just keep blowing it up. It
gets bigger and bigger. For example, a two year old's schema of a tree is "green and
big with bark" -- over time the child adds information (some trees lose their leaves,
some trees have names, we use a tree at Christmas, etc.)
Accommodation (piaget) - Correct answer-The process children used to construct
knowledge refers to how children can or will change existing understanding to
adopt new knowledge and revise extend or expand their concepts Jones
ex: When a child learns the word for dog, they start to call all four-legged animals
dogs. This is assimilation. People around them will say, no, that's not a dog, it's a
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, cat. The schema for dog then gets modified to restrict it to only certain four-legged
animals. That is accommodation.
Piaget's stages of cognitive development - Correct answer-1) Sensorimotor
2) preoperational
3)concrete operational
4)formal operational
Sensorimotor - Correct answer-Birth- 2
-experiencing the world through senses and actions
-object permanence
-stranger anxiety
Preoperational - Correct answer-2 to 7 years old
- representing things with words and mental images
-pretend play
-egocentrism
-language development
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exam (edited) 2026 Questions and
Answers
Piaget - Correct answer-Cognitive constructivist perspective of learning in
explaining how children build or construct knowledge of their world
-childrens' development must necessarily precede their learning (stages of
development)
children construct knowledge through interactions with others and through their
experience using thought process of assimilation and accommodation
ex: A child seeing a zebra for the first time and calling it a horse. The child
assimilates this information into her schema for a horse.
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,Piaget: teaching implications - Correct answer-support children to explore their
world and discover their knowledge
Assimilation (piaget) - Correct answer-What are the processes that children used to
construct knowledge they take new information into existing cognitive structure of
score schema
ex: Assimilation is like adding air into a balloon. You just keep blowing it up. It
gets bigger and bigger. For example, a two year old's schema of a tree is "green and
big with bark" -- over time the child adds information (some trees lose their leaves,
some trees have names, we use a tree at Christmas, etc.)
Accommodation (piaget) - Correct answer-The process children used to construct
knowledge refers to how children can or will change existing understanding to
adopt new knowledge and revise extend or expand their concepts Jones
ex: When a child learns the word for dog, they start to call all four-legged animals
dogs. This is assimilation. People around them will say, no, that's not a dog, it's a
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, cat. The schema for dog then gets modified to restrict it to only certain four-legged
animals. That is accommodation.
Piaget's stages of cognitive development - Correct answer-1) Sensorimotor
2) preoperational
3)concrete operational
4)formal operational
Sensorimotor - Correct answer-Birth- 2
-experiencing the world through senses and actions
-object permanence
-stranger anxiety
Preoperational - Correct answer-2 to 7 years old
- representing things with words and mental images
-pretend play
-egocentrism
-language development
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