GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
PIAGET
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Question
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children’s thinking is shaped by adult teachings and/or other environmental influences
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development is an active construction process.
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children at age 12 think in a qualitatively different way from children at age 4
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children move through the stages in his theory in an invariant sequence
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Detailed explanation-1: -For example, he believed that children experience the world through actions, representing things with words, thinking logically, and using reasoning. To Piaget, cognitive development was a progressive reorganization of mental processes resulting from biological maturation and environmental experience.
Detailed explanation-2: -Piaget proposed four major stages of cognitive development, and called them (1) sensorimotor intelligence, (2) preoperational thinking, (3) concrete operational thinking, and (4) formal operational thinking.
Detailed explanation-3: -While Piaget’s research has generated many suggested implications for teaching, five issues have been selected for discussion. These are stage-based teaching, uniqueness of individual learning, concep-tual development prior to language, experience in-volving action, and necessity of social interaction.
Detailed explanation-4: -Essentially, Piaget believed that humans create their own understanding of the world. In theological terms, he was a psychological constructivist, believing that learning is caused by the blend of two processes: assimilation and accommodation.