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Exam

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Piagets Periods of Development

• Sensorimotor Period (0-2)
• Preoperational Period (2-6 or 7)
• Concrete-Operational Period (7-11)

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Concrete-Operational Achievements

• Perspective-taking
• Conservation
• Class inclusion
• Transitivity

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Operations Piagets term for the various forms
of mental action through which children solve
problems and reason logically
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TransitivityA B, B C, A ? CA gt B, B gt C,
A ? C
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Piagets Periods of Development

• Sensorimotor Period (0-2)
• Preoperational Period (2-6 or 7)
• Concrete-Operational Period (7-11)
• Formal-Operational Period (11 or 12-)

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Formal-Operational Period (11 or 12 to...)
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Hypothetical-Deductive Reasoning (p. 268)
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• Figure 7.8 Expertise and formal operations.
  College students show the greatest command of
  formal-operational thought in the subject area
  most related to their major. ADAPTED FROM DE LISI
  STAUDT, 1980.

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Formal Operations
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Formal Operations

• Reversal in the relation between reality and
  possibility

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Formal Operations

• Reversal in the relation between reality and
  possibility
• Expansion in the scope of cognitive activity

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Cognitive Change

• Interactionist
• Action
• Constructivist
• AssimilationReadiness
• Intrinsic MotivationDisequilibrium
• Logical-Mathematical Experience

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Logical-mathematical experience Knowledge gained
from the actions performed upon objects rather
than from the objects themselves
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An Evaluation of Piagets Theory (pp. 272-274)
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AN EVALUATION OF PIAGETS THEORY

• Piagets Contributions
• Founded cognitive development
• Stated children construct their knowledge
• First attempt to explain development
• Reasonably accurate overview of how children of
  different ages think
• Major influence in social and emotional
  development, and education
• Influenced future research

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AN EVALUATION OF PIAGETS THEORY

• Challenges to Piaget
• Piaget failed to distinguish competence from
  performance
• Does cognitive development really occur in
  stages?
• Little evidence of broad stages
• Does Piaget explain cognitive development?
  more of a description
• Little attention to social/cultural influences

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Stages

• Qualitative change
• Invariant sequence
• Concurrence

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AN EVALUATION OF PIAGETS THEORY

• Challenges to Piaget
• Piaget failed to distinguish competence from
  performance
• Does cognitive development really occur in
  stages?
• Little evidence of broad stages
• Does Piaget explain cognitive development?
  more of a description
• Little attention to social/cultural influences