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Unit 3: Individual thinking
Quick questions on Piaget's stages of cognitive development: schemas, assimilation and the four stages (QCE Psychology Unit 3)
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What are the four stages?Show answer
Piaget argued the stages are universal and invariant: every child passes through them in the same order, though the exact ages vary.
What is conservation?Show answer
Conservation is the understanding that a quantity remains constant despite changes in its shape or arrangement. In the classic task, water is poured from a short wide glass into a tall thin one. A preoperational child says the tall glass has more (fooled by appearance, a feature called centration). A concrete operational child knows the amount is unchanged because nothing was added or removed.
What is evaluating Piaget?Show answer
Piaget's theory was hugely influential and shaped education, where readiness and active discovery learning are valued. However, it has limits.
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