DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD
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Some psychologists think Piaget underestimated the abilities of infants.
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Some psychologists think Piaget underestimated the development of teens’ brains.
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Some psychologists think that the formal operations stage actually begins at about age 9.
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Some psychologists believe that the concrete operations stage comes after the formal operations stage.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Piaget did not believe children to be intelligent beings. Piaget underestimated the capacities of children in pre-operational stage. Piaget did not understand children as actively constructing knowledge.
Detailed explanation-2: -Terms in this set (86) One criticism of Piaget’s theory is that it overestimates the influence of interactions with family members, peers, and teachers on cognitive development.
Detailed explanation-3: -As several studies have shown Piaget underestimated the abilities of children because his tests were sometimes confusing or difficult to understand (e.g., Hughes, 1975).
Detailed explanation-4: -The first underestimation made by Piaget would be at the sensori motor stage. Some researchers have claimed that infants do in fact posse object permanence at earlier stages than what Piaget somewhat predicted.