piaget

• Strengths of Piaget's theory


  • Providing understanding of the differences between the way a child + adult learn helped shape education for children

  Child education tend to now be based on cognitive development

  A great deal of research (longitudinal/cross-section)

  A large amount which was inspired by Piaget's findings
• Limitations of Piaget's theory

  
  

  • Over estimated people's formal operation abilities
  • Neglected cognitive factors accounted for the induvial differences in development that children show. e.g. memory span, memory, motivation, impulsiveness

  Unscientific method: Lack of control, small samples, absence of statistical analysis in research.

  • Sample of Piaget used to develop the 4 stages of CD were his own 3 children + children of his colleagues', all whom were all educated professionals of high socioeconomic status, results therefore unable to be generalized to the pop of children
• Criticisms of Piaget's tasks

  • Task no realistic

  Research ask repetitive question causing children wonder why

  Puts pressure on child to change answer

  Experimenter does not give feedback to the child whether the responded appropriately
• Application of Piaget's theory


  Theory can be applied to children's education regarding learning strategies and educational programs
• longitudinal: the data collected over a period of time, using the same participant
• Cross sectional: The data collected at one point in time with multiple participants.
• replacement: replace animals with non-sentient alternatives whenever possible
• refinement: refine the procedures used to minimise the suffering for animals
• reduction: reduce the number of animals used