CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD

PIAGET

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Piaget was the first person to really study why and how children think like they do. Before him, everyone thought of children as just being less competent adults.
A
True
B
False, people have always know that children can not think like adults even if they do come up with the right answer sometimes
C
False, people have been study the cognitive development of children since Freud
D
False, children do think like less competent adults, they just do not have the experience to arrive at correct answers or decisions.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Piaget believed that learning proceeded by the interplay of assimilation (adjusting new experiences to fit prior concepts) and accommodation (adjusting concepts to fit new experiences). The to-and-fro of these two processes leads not only to short-term learning, but also to long-term developmental change.

Detailed explanation-2: -Piaget’s Cognitive Development Theory Specifically, he posited that as children’s thinking develops from one stage to the next, their behavior also changes, reflecting these cognitive developments. The stages in his theory follow a specific order, and each subsequent stage only occurs after the one before it.

Detailed explanation-3: -Jean Piaget, (born August 9, 1896, Neuchâtel, Switzerland-died September 16, 1980, Geneva), Swiss psychologist who was the first to make a systematic study of the acquisition of understanding in children.

Detailed explanation-4: -According to Piaget children learn through the process of accommodation and assimilation so the role of the teacher should be to provide opportunities for these processes to occur such as new material and experiences which challenge the children’s existing schemas.

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